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Re: News-Server on Mac OS X?

On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Michael G. Schabert wrote:


Carbon applications require a gui, thus you have to be logged in and in you log out your application is toast. Hardly good for a server.

Not even ancient System 7 apps *require* a GUI.


Dan's concern could have grounds. If the application in any way presents a GUI to the user (even a menu bar) it may have dependencies on the windowing system that could cause issues. This may even be an issue in the use of Carbon events and creating a runloop.

I believe this is more the situation which he was referring to. Any strictly 'Carbonized' application is going to need signficant testing to ensure that it isn't dependent on the windowing system..

And when you take out the GUi aspects, what is left carbon wise? Resources and the HFS file specific access.. maybe the old Streams implementation (which Avie specifically warned new apps away from at WWDC).

Any app that presents a GUI is going to be an issue that requires a login. This was never an issue in System 7 because it was always logged in.

This is one reason I detest Frontier. It MUST be logged in and started as a user. This isn't always practical.
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