Well, if it makes you any happier, even the Carbon *engineers*
appear to
have been unaware of that pretty much until WWDC opening.
My understanding is that they knew about it well in advance of WWDC.
Actually, no. It was even publicly said (either here or on
carbondev.com) that the current seed didn't correctly reflect what
was going away, since they hadn't had enough advance notice to
remove anything yet.
Actually, yes. They knew well in advance of WWDC that Carbon would
not be 64-bit in Leopard. What had not been decided was exactly which
parts of Carbon would have the 64-bit versions pulled. 64-bit Carbon
is pretty much complete. It's just a political decision on the part
of Bertrand Serlet, Senior VP of Software Engineering and former NeXT
employee that Carbon would not be 64-bit in Leopard. So it's not like
there's some part of it that is getting pulled because it's not
ready. I think what happened is he decided some Carbon technology A
wouldn't be provided as 64-bit. Then some other technology B that
depends on A got its 64-bit version canned because they couldn't do B
in 64-bit if there was no A in 64-bit. So there were (and may still
be) a lot of people trying to decide how far this ripple effect was
going to extend.
Larry
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