On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:24 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On 6/13/07, Stefan Werner <email@hidden> wrote:
Isn't Qt based on Carbon too?
Oh, indeed it is :)
I don't know, but that doesn't matter. TrollTech is a big company and
I'm sure they will port it quickly if a need arrises (like for
example
when there is no 64-bits Carbon).
LOL Right. Unfortunately it won't work that way. You can't just
convert a framework that's based on a set of APIs to wrap a
completely different framework that requires a completely different
approach to application design and uses a different language
(Objective-C). At least not quickly, and if they actually did that
the result wouldn't work with all of the existing Qt projects.
Furthermore, lack of 64-bit support is not likely have have
TrollTech in a panic anytime soon.
Well, since we provide a library, we'd like to give customers access
to all of Mac OS X, and that does include 64-bit. In fact, we've had
people asking about it since it was announced last year and we've
spent time getting things to work in 64-bit Carbon. I can't say this
is the best news we've ever heard.
Larry is definitely right (I had to chuckle a little myself), it's
not something that you just do over the weekend. There's a lot of
regression-testing that needs to be done, and the fact that it would
have to most likely be a "only 64-bit" path. That's lots of fun to test.
On the positive side, it only affects our GUI libraries. The "core"
and networking, SQL, and others will still work in 64-bit.
Add one more to the "not happy" pile,
Off to WWDC for another day,
-- Trenton
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