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Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sure-wish-i-had-devel-seeds dept.

Orangez writes "Apppleinsider.com reports that 'Tiger' reaches the final candidate stage. 'With massive software projects such as Tiger, Apple will sometimes seed several final candidate builds before one is declared gold master...'" The final release has widely been speculated to be in the next month or two.

2 of 583 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Paying again... by znu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not every user has $129 to spend on OS upgrades every 12-24 months... but on the other hand, not every developer has hundreds of hours to waste implementing functionality on 10.2 that you get 'for free' on 10.3. Given the incredible new features for developers in 10.4, I'd expect there to be a lot of Tiger-only software.

    Hell, I've been waiting for Tiger to even start writing a shareware app I'm planning. Some of the new stuff, particularly Core Data and the improved SeachKit, are going to save me absolutely huge amounts of time and make my app better. Sure, it'll be Tiger-only, but I'm willing to trade off compatibility for quality and convenience. Otherwise I'd be a Windows user....

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  2. Re:before anyone else does it... by Jellybob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems to me that Apple are doing versioning right.

    The way it should work is x.y.z

    z: Bug fixes
    y: New features
    x: Backwards compatibility break

    Since 10.4 appears to have new features, but not break backwards compatibility, it's the right version.