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: Stephen Cronin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:04:09 -0700
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.
Totally agree that should be the goal for the new. Given the prominence of privacy at WWDC I think security is THE driving engineering force at the moment..
In providing the new, what of the old. Is it just BUPKES
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.
Figure where modern IPC *needs to be*,
and deliver that then make the old system as close to that is practical.
This seems like the real challenge 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!"
Job’s penchant, and the corporate transfer, for pulling rabbits out of the hat is something they have to out grow… The world is a bigger more complicated place than when the pirate flags were flying off Stevens Creek..
Are they working toward this? Reading tea leaves is not how Tim manages his budgets… I don’t understand why they can’t see this for themselves… Would Apple corporate buy their computers from Apple if they weren’t providing them..
OK I am done! Steve |
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