alexcrichton/hermes — Issue #32: Plan for previous OS support
Author: terinjokes
Created: 2012-02-25 23:10:48+00:00
State: open

Alex:

What's your plan for continuing to support previous OSes?

With Lion, Apple brought over AVFoundation from iOS, which I feel is better in Hermes's use case than the CoreAudio backed AudioStreamer, and removes "processing an audio stream in real time" from the tasks that must be looked after.

However, this isn't available in Snow Leopard, so as long you're planning on supporting that, then you'll have to stick with CoreAudio. With Mountain Lion around the corner, Snow Leopard will be 2 version behind, however.