Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps
Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps
- Subject: Re: Cocoa/EOF for non-enterprise apps
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:12:18 -0700
At 5:18 PM +0200 6/22/01, Marco Scheurer wrote:
I agree that the current Cocoa/EOF/Objective C situation is bad, and
that we've been deceived, once more. But the scarce resources excuse
is still valid.
There were sufficient resources to spend on a lot of things, thus I
will say that the scarcity of resources was not a technical barrier
but a political one.
We know, us NEXTSTEP old timers, that we won: Cocoa is pretty much
what we liked to use. It's great to be still able to use it, and
this was not granted one or two years ago. I admire Apple for
pulling this out without aggravating (too much) the faithful Mac
developers. So in the end, I do not mind if scarce resources are
used to placate MacApp developers.
Nor do I, except that Apple has shunned database developers for 15
years and I'm really tired of it. Being an old NeXTian, perhaps you
missed that, but I didn't.
The problem with EOF is probably more political than technical anyway.
Of course it is.
But I see it as a different political issue than most people.
The lumping of EOF with WO (rather than alone or with Cocoa) means
that no database access exists outside the framework of the web or
web tools. Clearly that's not the case.
Or, put more succinctly: Microsoft gets the point and their market
share in business increased (over the last 15 years). Apple didn't
and theirs declined (over the last 15 years). You do the math.
Now do we really want EOF for more than legacy purposes? There are
times when I think that it became too big, slow and complicated, and
in the end, not so great. The amazing thing is that nothing better
seems to exist...
Absolutely, even if I only get a flat-file adapter.
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