Re: Building with GNUstep make on Panther/Tiger

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Peter,

> > I find it discouraging that apps aren't binary compatible between 
> > 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4, although I understand why. I guess Apple tries 
> > to solve this issue with xCode by creating fat bundles containing 
> > code for all three OS versions.
>
> You are misinformed.
>
> Apps are absolutely binary compatible from 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4!

Thanks for the info!

> Fat binaries are NOT used for different OS versions, only for 
> different CPU architectures.
>
> In addition, in most cases, things built on 10.4 will also run on 
> OLDER OS versions

What exactly means "most cases" except the obvious API extension 
reason? Why does code built one Jaguar not work on Tiger properly then?

Regards,

 Andreas