metacard digest, Vol 1 #397 - 8 msgs

[curry]

>>A cross platform developer would need a minimum of 7 computers, if
>>you own all the flavours that your program might run on.

>You need to make a distinction between "computers" and "operating systems".
>You can have one computer that runs many flavors of Windows through
>different means.

That's true. It's still challenging to keep up though. I didn't have 
Mac OSX for a long time. Then I just upgraded to Windows XP the other 
day--before that I'd done Windows 98. Now, theoretically I need to go 
back over to the Mac side and upgrade from X.1 to Jaguar--but then 
again, better to have both to test separately rather than upgrade?

So now, I can do Mac 7, 8, 9, and 10.1, and Windows 95 and XP, and if 
I'm lucky I'll have one more try at reformatting and get that one to 
dual boot to Windows 98 and XP so I'll have all three. But I suppose 
the race to keep up with the Gateses and Jobses will have to 
continue. (I shudder to think about how many systems they must use at 
MetaCard and RunRev--maybe we could see a "day in the life" of these 
companies from time to time to show us a bit of behind the scenes for 
fun?)

Anyway, I was so happy about catching up somewhat on both platforms, 
and had originally assumed that having Mac 10.1 would be OK for 
testing on the Mac side, but then on one of the Revolution lists 
recently, I heard someone complain about totally nonresponsive 
controls and was told that some Appearance Manager stuff was broken 
under Jaguar until the next release; they said setting the controls 
to non-Appearance Mac did the trick.

I'd rather not upgrade the Mac immediately, and even then there's the 
possibility of needing both 10.1 and Jaguar, if there are enough 
issues between them, since lots of people have both. Should I wait 
for the next Rev/MC release to release anything, and after that, 
should 10.1 be sufficient for testing, or will I have to have Jaguar, 
or both? Does anyone have the short answer on that? (Besides the 
obvious suggestion of kicking someone at Apple in the rear, of 
course!)

Curry

(PS: I was wondering why Eudora often marked messages on these lists 
as being potentially offensive or "hot" on its "mood" rating. I saw 
just now that when I typed "Appearance Manager", it was marked red 
and evidently considered flaming! Well, I guess they have a point! 
How insightful! :-)