25Aug/11Off
Update Time!
AppStore Lion Screenshot
With the .1 update out, I considered it safe to make the move to Lion.
Upgrade itself was smooth and uneventful, but I have a few complaints:
- I downloaded from the AppStore 3 days after 10.7.1 was out, but it installed 10.7. I had to get the 10.7.1 update separately. Don't they update the installer at all?
- Why the **** did they make the Dashboard a separate space? Luckily you can change this in the "Mission Control" settings.
- It is sloooooow. Going fullscreen is not smooth. Switching spaces is not smooth. Snow Leopard feels fast as hell. The Lion feels more like a Lion on Valium. Or like this one.
Other than that, transition was great. XCode 4 was installed in no time, preserving my old XCode3 installation, however I doubt I will ever start the IDE. I only use the command line tools, in combination with QtCreator.
I recompiled all my stuff with llvm-gcc and I look forward to exploring clang. Using the XCode4 tools however means dropping the support for the 10.5 SDK, which means the next CRJ will only run on 10.6+.
August 29th, 2011 - 07:14
Hi Philipp,
Sorry to hear that the new version of the OSX is slow (maybe your mac is the issue? ) but I wonder why to code the next CRJ with compiler that is not compatible to snow leopard if you can always build your plugins on gcc4.2 or X-Code 3 or for that matter use your compiling scripts with the 10.5SDK and gcc compiler, unless Lion does not support libraries from gcc compiler or older SDK ( I believe that the llvm-gcc is the issue ?)
August 29th, 2011 - 19:32
The CRJ will be compatible to Snow Leopard 10.6 in the future. I’m dropping the support for 10.5 (Leopard). Simply because llvm gives me better possibilities for optimization. Of course, I could release two different plugins for the CRJ, one for 10.5, and one for 10.6/10.7. But given the number of 10.5 users according to our usage statistics (0,25% of all users, 0,83% of all Mac users) it’s not worth the effort.