On 1/12/01 10:57 PM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/12/01 9:09 PM, "Peter Gort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> on 13/1/01 12:18 PM, Omar Shahine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/12/01 2:19 PM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> on 1/12/01 12:28 PM, Dan Crevier deftly typed out:
>>>>
>>>>>>> No, that's not what it means. Office for X will only work on OS X.
>>>>>>> Carbon
>>>>>>> makes it *possible* to write an app that will run on both, but that is
>>>>>>> very
>>>>>>> difficult.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, you're saying that Office for OS X is a Cocoa app? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope.
>>>>
>>>> What he's saying is that Carbon makes it possible to write an app for both
>>>> OS 9 and X, but not necessary. An application can be made OS X native by
>>>> using the Carbon APIs, but without additional effort won't necessarily
>>>> still
>>>> run in OS 9. I'm getting the impression that it'll be OS X only.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>> Not being privy to Microsoft's code I can't say for sure, but for example:
>>
>> The move to OSX means that the "extensions" that MS installs in your system
>> folder cannot be used in the same way. OSX tries REALLY HARD to make
>> developers put all needed resources in their application, not in "the
>> system". If an application's capabilities need to be shared with other
>> applications, then several alternatives are available, "services" being one
>> of them. So because MS cannot just move the "extensions" over to OSX, they
>> must re-engineer them in one of the OSX ways (shared libraries probably),
>> which makes it almost impossible to make a single application for both
>> platforms.
>
> Office does not share any extensions in the extensions folder (with the
> exception of the web download of Microsoft Office Manager). It only
> installs shared libraries, which are fully supported on Mac OS X. The
> Services stuff is only available in Cocoa apps, not Carbon apps.
Oops, "share" should be "store".
Dan
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