Re: Carbon 64 bit - again

Subject: Re: Carbon 64 bit - again
From: Tony Scaminaci <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT)
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It's interesting how long this discussion has been going on and how much impact it's had on Mac developers. I hope Apple is thinking through the long-term strategy with respect to carbon. And by thinking it through, I mean I hope they're not seriously thinking about deprecating it in some future version of MacOS without giving us at least 2 years notice. Not one year, two years because it may take that long to port many apps from carbon to whatever the API dujour may be two years down the road. This all started from comments about carbon not being fully 64-bit compliant and we're only talking about 32/64 bits here which is a very minor problem compared to the possible deprecation of carbon itself further down the road. Apple may love Cocoa but it's clear that many developers don't, or at least the ones on this list don't. I don't know what percentage of all Mac apps are carbon vs Cocoa so maybe we're all a bunch of minority whiners and complainers. Even if this is the case, making decisions that affect your developers, especially ones that may spell the end of a key application on the Mac platform, should be carefully thought out and adequate notice given. It seems that every time something scary happens on the developer side, it only comes out at an ADC conference and then mass panic sets in just like with this topic. Does Apple like scaring its developers? I hope not...

Tony

Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:

No, the Finder is still largely a Carbon app in Leopard, although it
does use our new HICocoaView capability to allow embedding NSViews
inside a Carbon window to implement the coverflow view.

-eric

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