Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- Subject: Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:55:05 +0100
Apple doesn't want its frameworks to turn over-bloated with a function
for everything you could possibly ever want to do. I think their
attitude is "you can make frameworks for a reason" -- i.e. if there
should be a community effort of any type it should be something like
MiscKit.
-- Finlay
On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 11:22 pm, Ed Baskerville wrote:
Another thing: why doesn't Apple create an infrastructure for
third-party
open-source classes and frameworks to be rolled into Cocoa?
I think that's something that would be worth pursuing for Apple; done
right,
it could add a lot of cool features to Cocoa quickly. Again, Think
Darwin.
Obviously I'm not expecting the stuff Apple develops internally to
become
open source, since Cocoa is decidedly in the
we-won't-open-source-this-because-it's-proprietary category. But
allowing
open-source development of add-ons that eventually became part of the
Apple
frameworks would be very cool.