[Sparkle] Plan to support garbage collection?

[Uli Kusterer]

On 19.02.2008, at 02:06, Andy Matuschak wrote:
> I had thought that a dual-mode framework could only be compiled for
> 10.5, but people on here have told me that it works for 10.4+. I don't
> really understand how that's possible, so I'm skeptical. It may or may
> not actually work. :)


  I think it's similar as with universal binaries: 10.4 will find the  
non-GC version of a framework in a dual binary, while older versions  
will not know where to find the code in the framework. Only 10.5 will  
obviously be able to actually run a GC version, as the runtime isn't  
yet able to do GC, only the compiler (and that's obviously pretty  
useless for our practical purposes).

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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