Re: 10.11 additions to NSAppleEventDescriptor & Mac App Store
Re: 10.11 additions to NSAppleEventDescriptor & Mac App Store
- Subject: Re: 10.11 additions to NSAppleEventDescriptor & Mac App Store
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:12:08 +0100
On 28/06/2016 18:12, has wrote:
delivering this high level bridge considering NOT breaking existing
functionality is not doubt challenging and will take time to fully bake.
Meant to say: The *whole point* of creating a new modern XPC-based full
IPC infrastructure to replace Apple events IPC is so they can design and
build it right, *without* having to worry about maintaining any sort of
backwards compatibility. Retrofitting modern security and other
requirements to an architecture designed for a time before "internet"
even existed is an endless nightmare - it breaks stuff anyway and still
leaves holes - whereas a completely new, unrelated system that starts
over from a clean slate avoids all those problem because it can get the
architecture right first and then let users grow into that.
Heck, even if the end goal was to take everything learned in designing a
completely new IPC system and then retrofit that knowledge to the old
one, that's still a far better way to do it than just blindly mangling
the original with out a clear idea of where it needs to go. Figure where
modern IPC *needs to be*, then make the old system as close to that is
practical. Even if the original still gets replaced eventually, that
would at least provide a transitional stage that will make it easier for
existing vendors to position themselves for that final push while still
providing immediate improvements; as Apple has previously with Carbon in
the Classic-to-OSX transition.
So yeah, most if not all of the current "AppleScript" architecture would
still go away anyway, but at least it's in favor of a new, vastly
improved foundation that should appeal to a far, far larger (1000x)
audience than the old one ever could: "AppleScript is Dead: Long Live
Mac Automation!"
has
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