I think Carbon was originally intended to be a transitional API to
ease the fears of developers in OS 9. But like you say Larry, once
the work is done, no one wants to do it again which is why Carbon has
hung around so long.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jun 14, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:
What everyone seems to forget is the Carbon was always described
as a method for a relatively smooth transition of OS 9's "legacy"
procedural APIs onto OS X so that developers could get their
products running sooner, not as something that would be around
forever.
That hasn't always been the official description. If that were the
case then why have an announcement at last year's WWDC that Carbon
would get 64-bit support? Why introduce an all new interface model
(HIView) in the third major release of Mac OS X? Why would people
want to abuse themselves carbonizing an old application just to
have to redo it all again later in Cocoa?
Larry
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