Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- Subject: Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:07:26 -0400
On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 06:55 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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.
Actually, I think this needs to be addressed by Apple much moreso.
For example.. there are areas that Apple should take the lead in,
that many apps required, and will give Cocoa developers a further
advantage. In many cases this code already exists within Apple or in
Private Frameworks. I.E. HTML, POP, IMAP, SMTP.
more string handling is needed, XML handling, etc...
There is not that much in the MiscKit that shouldn't be directly in
the AppKit, or a related AppKitExtensions (like WOExtensions) (removing
the MiscMerge and MiscGIS stuff from the equation.