On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Bruce Carter wrote:
That's pretty much what the OpenDoc team was saying, right before a
RIFt in the time/space continuum erased them from the universe...
On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Peter Bozek wrote:
Apple employees at carbon developer list claims that this is not true
- that Carbon is well, is maintained and there are no plans to
discontinue it in the future.
Considering how much of Cocoa uses *Carbon* to implement it's
"magic," I seriously doubt that Carbon will be going away any time
soon. If it did, parts of *Cocoa* would fail to work. The Carbon
guys know where things are going, and Apple knows that killing off
Carbon would not be a very good thing, since much of Apple's third-
party support for major applications requires Carbon. Unlike Cocoa
for Java (which was hardly used), Carbon is heavily used, and as such
Apple must fix problems and add necessary functionality.
However, Carbon *is* just barely above maintenance mode. Things will
be fixed, some new development is happening, but don't expect Apple
to make any new technologies available with a straight C API, the API
will be Objective-C -- which, by the way, is NOT Cocoa, Cocoa is just
another framework to build against. However, it is possible to mix
Carbon and Cocoa, and will get easier as time goes on. There are
things that still need to be fixed in Cocoa as well (maximum path
length, unicode string management, dynamic file management), but
things are getting better there as well.
Repeat after me: Cocoa is just a framework, not some sort of "voodoo
magic."
The Cocoa/Carbon wars are over, and both won.
--
Glenn L. Austin <><
Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver
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<http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/>
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