Mac Classic build ???

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 28/03/2010 22:29, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
> Richard,

Who is 'Richard' ?
>
> from all i have heard mac classic build stopped at 2.6.1 and never 
> officially made it into anything after that. 3 was to be the last, but 
> i think that ended up being abandoned by that point as it was just too 
> hard to keep it backwards compatible. for stuff that also needs mac 
> classic build i build the stack in 261 then move it to later versions 
> to make the pc and osx builds and build the classic in 261. figure 
> thats the safest way to not do something in a later build that can be 
> moved back to 261 for the classic build.
>
> in the ed publishing world the classic is just starting to go away for 
> media. im hoping the next project will not have it in there, will be 
> nice to move on as much as i like the fact that the old macs are still 
> holding in there and just giving a rising return on investment for the 
> schools, but its hell on the developer, harder to keep a classic 
> machine around to test on!
>
> cheers
>
> jeff
>
>
maybe bunging a Classic engine in RunRev 3, 3.5 and 4 was too much like 
trouble; however, as the
standalone settings palette does have acard for a Classic standalone 
there is a bad case of
mixed messages going on.

sincerely, Richmond.