Re: Mac port on Mac OS 8.0

[James Berry <jb...@criticalpath.com>]

Hi Erik,

Yes, sigh, we're relying on a few things that are Mac OS 9.0 only. I
believe there are good workarounds available without too much work.

 - URLAccess: there are now defines (in the prefix) to allow to disable
the netaccessor. This may be (for you) a non-essential piece of code.
Unless you write your own, this may be your best choice (also look into
whether URLAccess will install back to system 8.0).

 - Unicode collation, as I recall, is but one of several potential ways
to perform the collation. I'll be happy to look at that next week, but
you may be able to find a workaround. I believe some of the Unicode
Utilities will also install back to OS 8.0.

 - As far as HFS+ support, the code "should" be doing a good job of
testing for the functionality before using it in this case. You may need
to weak-link against the proper library, however.

 - As far as multi-thread support, I don't think there's anything we're
doing that doesn't go back to 8.0.

Please keep me informed of the specifics (and specific problems), and/or
any patches you have that enable you to get back to OS 8.0. I'll try to
spend a bit of time on this issue next week.

-jdb


Eric Singer wrote:

> Add to the OS9 problems URL access and Unicode collate utilities.
>
> Eric
>
> I wrote:
>
> >Thanks to all who responded.  I found and downloaded the latest
> >source and am close to a working port.  My problem now is that there
> >is OS9-specific code (pertaining to HFS+ and multithread-safe file
> >system calls, I believe), and I need the code to run on OS8 and
> >later.
> >
> >Does there exist a port which is OS8 compatible?  If not, how
> >difficult is it likely to be to convert the existing code to OS8?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Eric
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: xerces-c-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: xerces-c-dev-help@xml.apache.org