AW: Which version...

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von John Dixon
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2015 11:50
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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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