Which version...

[John Dixon]

Just made a standalone for a stack I'm working on...

from LC 6.7 -   2.8 mb in size
from LC 7.0 - 28.0 mb in size

Where did all that bloat appear from !?

Dixie

> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:37:28 -0800
> From: dave at applicationinsight.com
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Which version...
> 
> As far as I know (which isn't saying much):
> 
> LC 6.6.x = maintenance of 'old generation' versions (e.g. carbon)
> LC 6.7.x = 'new generation' stuff like cocoa, excluding UniCode
> LC 7.x.x = all 'new generation' stuff, including Unicode
> 
> LC 6.6 is for working on legacy stacks
> LC 6.7 is for those wanting 'new generation' features but who don't want
> UniCode
> LC 7 is the future and the base on which they are building LC 8 (and
> presumabely HTML5 too)
> 
> So - as to which version you should use - depends on what you're working on! 
> 
> If you are close to releasing an app and don't need 'new generation'
> features then probably you are best with 6.6.x
> 
> If you don't expect to release you app very soon and think that 'new
> generation' bugs are both necessary in your app likely to have been ironed
> out by the time you launch your app then I would say go with 7.x.x 
> 
> Unless there is some reason why you don't want the new way LC supports
> UniCode, in which case go with 6.7.x
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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