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Re: NeXTstep -- err, Mac OS X.

On 5/30/03 3:00 PM, Pietrzak, Bryan didst favor us with:

> Well, we just started porting our app here at work to Carbon. It's around
> 700,000 lines of code. It's a graphical drawing app and based on my
> experiences doing other carbon work I don't see any huge hurdles (*) ahead.
> There are three of us carbonizing (and modernizing!) and I'll be surprised
> if it takes more than three to four months.

I would expect less if you have three people working on it, given the other
advantages you list below.
>
> We have almost 25 CDEFs, one custom WDEF, two custom LDEFs, we use the ATM
> backdoor APIs to convert text to paths, we parse all the FOND resouces to
> build our own (filtered) font list and wysiwyg menu and so on. Other than
> replacing the ATM APIs, I'm not all that concerned. It helps that I've
> carbonized many small apps and one medium sized (~100K LOC) app already and
> have lots of core "helper" type of functions and classes already written.

Don't forget that the documentation is better, and problems you beat your
head against the wall for days to solve a year or two ago have known
solutions now.
>
> We also are going OS X only and mach-o so that in itself is a big burden
> removed.
>
What?!?! You aren't supporting CarbonLib?? Wienies. LOL

Larry
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