Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 00:54:24 04/30/05
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On April 30, 2005 at 03:04:13, Steven Edwards wrote: >Is there any advantage to making the executable OSX 10.4 specific? No, not at all. This is a consequence of an annoying limitation in the tools I use to create the GUI. Scatha's GUI is created using the excellent free Common Lisp implementation OpenMCL: http://www.clozure.com/openmcl Despite being free, OpenMCL is one of the best development tools I have ever had the pleasure to use. It also contains a very nice Objective-C bridge which makes it possible to use Apple's Cocoa GUI kit from Common Lisp. There is only one problem with the Objective-C bridge: Programs which use it will only work in the exact Mac OS X version in which they are compiled. This problem is expected to be solved in future versions of OpenMCL, but I am not sure how soon. I have thought a bit about workarounds for this problem. Perhaps it would somehow be possible to ship the program with source code, and make it automatically detect OS version incompatibilities and recompile itself at startup when necessary. This might be somewhat tricky to achieve, but I am sure it should be possible. >I don't think any of the 10.4 API additions are critical for a typical >chess program. I agree. I would deliver an application which works in all OS X versions if I could. Tord
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