[Sparkle] 10.3.9 Report - Still Crashing

[Dean Shavit]

Re-creating the build environment for Sparkle 1.5 under Xcode 2.4  
looks like a lot of work. My thought that is that it is a bad idea to  
advertise support for 10.3 in Sparkle 1.5 unless it actually works.  
While I might have success re-factoring the Xcode project to build on  
2.4, that doesn't benefit the Sparkle project or anyone else  
attempting to use it for Panther clients. So, I'm here to test for  
anyone who wants to track down the issue(s) - or (and this would be a  
bummer, but entirely understandable), remove Panther support from  
Sparkle 1.5 and declare Tiger as the minimum OS it supports. Myself,  
I'd stick with 1.1 then until I want to drop Panther support, or 10.6  
breaks it.

On Jun 6, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Dean Shavit wrote:

> Did you have to manually rebuild the whole project? Or simply  
> compile it? Any tips?
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Brian Webster wrote:
>
>> This looks like the same problem I was having when I tried building  
>> Sparkle 1.1 using Xcode 3 and deploying on Panther.  See:
>>
>> http://lists.andymatuschak.org/pipermail/sparkle-andymatuschak.org/2007-November/000157.html
>> http://lists.andymatuschak.org/pipermail/sparkle-andymatuschak.org/2008-February/000284.html
>>
>> Basically it looks like there's something weird with the linker on  
>> Xcode 3 that causes crashes when running Sparkle on 10.3.  The  
>> really strange this is that Sparkle is the only code I ever had  
>> crashes with, all my own code compiled and ran fine.  There's  
>> nothing obvious in the Sparkle code as to why it would have a  
>> problem where other code doesn't though.  My workaround at the time  
>> was to build Sparkle using Xcode 2.4 on Tiger, which worked fine,  
>> and then build the rest of my project with Xcode 3.
>