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(Re)designing for Portability

When porting applications to Mac OS X, you might consider making architectural changes to make your port (and future ports) more maintainable.

If you are a new developer designing an application that you eventually hope to use on multiple platforms, many of the portability issues described in this chapter apply regardless of the platforms involved.

Contents:

What is Portability?
Using Abstraction Layers
Using Plug-Ins and Libraries Effectively
Architectural Portability

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