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Re: NeXTStep Kits

On 2/16/01 8:13 AM, "Dennis J. Hagner" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hey, I was looking around on a site which had developer information for
> NeXTStep, and one of the things I noticed it spoke about was a Database kit
> framework. How come this kit was never moved over to MacOS X (rhapsody), and
> subsequently PB?

DBKit morphed into EOF 1.0. EOF 1.0 then became 2, 3 and 4.

EOF was not included by default with NeXTStep until 4.x, it was an extra
product. This sucked, because you couldn't count in the user having
purchased it.

EOF is present in Mac OS X Server. And it is much cooler than DBKit
was. You can write database apps that are not reliant on specific servers
almost trivially, with no SQL being written by you.

But then there is the downside.

Apple has made EOF a 'non-standard' item again with Mac OS X. You'll
have to add it, or license it.

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 >NeXTStep Kits (From: "Dennis J. Hagner" <email@hidden>)



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