Revert to Leopard

Question

Hi,

Ia develop with Xcode C++ programs, before in Leopard and now in Snow Leopard. I am experiencing in SL a lot of new and stupuid problems. You can find a lot of them in SO just looking for "snow leopard". I am considering reverting to Leopard wich worked just fine. I ask you about how many of you would do the same in order to avoid the new problems.

I mean, let's say that there will still be one or at least tow years of Leopard support and development, so I would prefer to stay there, while SL gets polished.

Thanlks

Answer 1

It would help if you were a bit more specific about what development issues you are experiencing in OS X 10.6.

One of the most common problems, which is easily remedied, is to switch your default gcc from 4.2 back to to 4.0 - both are installed on 10.6 but gcc 4.2 is the default. Switching back o 4.0 can help, especially with legacy code.

Similarly you might want to use the 10.4 or 10.5 SDK if you are having issues with the 10.6 SDK.

Answer 2

Just use the leopard install disk, but it's not recommended because downgrading can be bad sometimes... What issues are you experiencing with compiling C++ programs?