Again I bag to differ. My hypothesis is that Apple just followed
the most vocal people of the Wonder community. This was a very
comfortable decision for then because it freed them of investing
in tool support. If the same people would spend the same mental
and vocal energy on supporting the old WO tools, we could be in
completely different environment now.
You're overlooking the other possibility, which is that Apple maybe
isn't WILLING to invest in WO tools, and the longer they choose not
to, the higher the risk that a WO tool would break in a future
release, which would potentially put the entire framework release
at risk. In this interpretation of events, WOLips freed the core
frameworks to grow with substantially less risk.
As far as supporting the old WO tools, I'm not exactly sure how we
could have supported them. Could we have begged Apple louder to
replace them? It had been years since anything really had come out
of Apple in this regard. None of the Apple tools support a public
plugin architecture, so begging was really the only other choice.
So it was either that we try to provide nice replacements to the
tools (which is the route we chose) or we beg louder, which hasn't
had much impact on Apple over the past 5-7 years.
I'm starting to think they dropped the tools for both reasons. They
looked at what the most vocal users of WO are using, and what Apple
staff are using, and they saw that most of them were already using
Eclipse. At the same time, they wanted to remove old legacy stuff
from Leopard, and Cocoa EOF was one of those legacy technologies.
BTW, the annual survey is a good way to get feedback from the whole
community, not just the vocal ones. This is why we created the new
WO community Web site and the surveys.
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