Re: WTF? How can this work?
Re: WTF? How can this work?
- Subject: Re: WTF? How can this work?
- From: Chris Kane <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:22:59 -0700
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 07:13 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
Thank you for the nice long reply. I summarize the changes were made
for
the following benefits:
1) to bring Foundation benefits to Carbon programmers
2) expose previously private APIs
None of the big features I listed were previously private APIs. They
are new APIs or new capabilities, or public APIs from EOF.
I am curious. As a Cocoa frameworks guy, who do you perceive is your
customer ?
I'm both a CoreFoundation and Cocoa frameworks guy. All Apple
developers, Carbon, Cocoa, or other, are potential customers; and, I'm
my own customer. But I'm not forcing anyone to use Cocoa or
CoreFoundation, or all bits of those; people will use Cocoa, as it is,
if they are able and it's advantageous for them to do so. Or they will
write their own or use something else.
That is Apple's burden/not ours
But Apple's burdens still impact you. If we can't use our available
bandwidth to make improvement X, because we're bogged down elsewhere,
you won't get improvement X.
On the WHOLE, I think the changes are and will be worth the pain. They
may never be worth it for you particularly.
Chris Kane
Cocoa Frameworks, Apple