On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
All due respect, I'm not looking for a treasure hunt.
With all due respect, what you seek does not concern Apple. ;-)
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.
I have already spent some time with Google and the mailing list
searches, and did not find what I was looking for. I'm looking
for some definitive statement from Apple regarding the future of
Carbon.
And I'd like for someone to give me a million dollars. Get used to
disappointment.
Goodness. I'd thought that people had grown up enough to be able to
avoid unwarranted hostility (however veiled) of this sort. I
remember the "good old days" when any question in any public forum
was an invitation to disdainful replies. But I'd thought communities
had matured to a point where that didn't happen very often any more.
Why the sarcasm? I asked a simple enough question. It doesn't
warrant anything other than a simple, friendly answer. No need to
falsely imply that I'm somehow not used to, or am unprepared for,
disappointment.
It does seem like a nice summary of some messages on this mailing
list. But it doesn't really answer my question.
That's because there *is* no definitive answer. People have pointed
you to the best information available, which is largely more
speculation than information at this point.
Actually, at the point in time at which I posted the message you're
quoting, no one had yet said simply "Apple has not revealed this
information". That's a fine answer, if that's the correct one, but
no one had offered it yet.
The greater the extent to which Apple is silent on this (and any
other) issue, the more flexibility they have in their planning
without reneging on past statements the way they did regarding 64-
bit support.
That's fine. I'm not making judgments one way or the other regarding
Apple's choices about what information they've offered or not. I was
simply asking whether they _had_ offered the information.
From the replies so far, I gather that they have not. For the time
being, that's not an issue for me. It's not like I have a huge
amount of time to dedicate to reacquainting myself with Mac OS X
development anyway, and my near-term plan is to focus on Cocoa
regardless. I was just curious about the status of Carbon, and
figured if anyone had information about it, this mailing list would.
Thank you everyone for your input.
Pete
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