It's a shame how Apple treats the majority of their developers
these days..
Carbon developers may not be the majority anymore. Apple would say
they are not. However, we have no guarantee that they won't treat
Cocoa developers with less respect than they deserve at some point in
the future if Apple decides that suits their needs. This whole 64-bit
Carbon thing raises some questions in my mind. Did Apple just decide
last week to not provide full 64-bit support for Carbon? If the
decision was made earlier, why didn't they communicate it to
developers? Do they not realize that the sooner developers know this
kind of information the sooner they can reassess their plans,
potentially saving them a lot of money? And "go to WWDC to learn the
latest" doesn't sound like a valid reply. Last year they promised to
provide 64-bit Carbon at WWDC. This year they announce they wouldn't,
but that didn't help anyone in the interim, even if they attended
both. Can Apple not establish a long term plan to which they can
stick and communicate it to their developers, or should we just hope
from year to year that they won't pull a rug out from under us or
dump some new transition on us?
I suspect that our reaction (at least mine and a few others) of this
64-bit Carbon thing is influenced by the fact that Carbon developers
have been undertaking one transition after another for years now, and
we're tired of it. I know I am, and part of that, at least in my
case, is that the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was far more
painful than it should have been. Bugs in Mac OS X and Interface
Builder made much of the process frustrating and tedious. Now I'm
wondering, if I wanted to convert my application and its 60+ windows
to Cocoa, would IB convert all my nibs or would I be blessed with the
unbridled joy of rebuilding them all over again from scratch? That
is, can IB convert a Carbon nib to a Cocoa nib?
Larry
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