Run otool -L on various OS X executables and libraries (.dylib). You'll see that a lot of programs use the Carbon framework, either exclusively or in tandem with the Cocoa framework. All of these programs would be affected by a move away from Carbon. This includes things like the Qt libraries. However, "deprecated" does not mean "eliminated."
Apple has been pushing Cocoa since 10.0, but met fierce resistance from developers who didn't want to rewrite everything. Eventually Cocoa will probably be desirable from the point of view of new things added to it that aren't available via the traditional Carbon API. At that point it might be reasonable to develop a Cocoa-based widgetset. In the meantime I'm just grateful that we have a native widgetset for Lazarus in Carbon. Once the IDE is Carbon-based I imagine there will be an increase in the number of Mac programmers taking another look at Lazarus who were scared off by GTK, X11, fink, etc. Thanks. -Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [lazarus] Carbon may become deprecated soon Hi, "The most important point of the day was : no 64 bits for Carbon. This means Carbon will probably be binary compatible for 10.5, and deprecated for 10.6. Waiting for more infos, I'll comment more in the part 2." Carbon support devels, please see: http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/06/back-from-wwdc-2007-part-1-agenda.html http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/visiting_the_apple_wwdc_2007 Diogo Piçarra _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
