Re: Toll Free Bridging, wrapping the SearchKit, and One-Way Bridging
Re: Toll Free Bridging, wrapping the SearchKit, and One-Way Bridging
- Subject: Re: Toll Free Bridging, wrapping the SearchKit, and One-Way Bridging
- From: Stuart Halloway <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:57:39 -0500
Now if Stuart or someone else start making a wrapper for the
SearchKit, there are currently no guarantees that this work will not
be obsoleted in a week or a month if Apple does it. And if nobody does
it, there are no guarantees that it will not be missing for years.
Exactly. I will get more than 50% of the way to a generic wrapper just
exploring the SearchKit for my own purposes. But, absent any
information or encouragement from Apple I probably wouldn't do it for
exactly the reasons you state.
Depending on the copyright and license of such products (for instance
Free BSD vs GPL) Apple could silently reuse some of this effort, but
wouldn't it make sense for Apple to "officialize" these contributions?
Maybe ask for them, and maybe acknowledge them? Maybe even promote and
distribute an open sourced "Cocoa Contributions" umbrella framework?
Sounds great to me.
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