Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
- Subject: Re: Apple and Developers (was lots of different subjects)
- From: "Andrew R. Mitchell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:25:57 -0500
At 2:31 AM -0500 3/25/02, Scott Anguish wrote:
MacApp is a non-issue. it's available as complete source code no?
There is no loss there, and anyone can choose to continue to develop
for it, extend it, etc..
Source code yes, open source no. Any changes or bug fixes I make are
not available to anyone else using it. In other words over time it
becomes a private framework for the company working on it and
extending it. How much more effort would it take to make it an Open
Source project.
I'd be surprised if there were that many commercial shipping apps
that were using the stock Apple MacApp frameworks.
I know of several companies in the Boston area (where I am located)
that are using it right now for future development. As far as
shipping apps go, percentage wise I'm sure you're right, but I also
think you'd be surprise by some of people using it and who they are.
(If you interested, see
<
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macapp/exchange.html> for an
outdated list of just some of the developers using it.)
But now this has gone way off topic as this is not the forum to talk
about MacApp, and for that I apologize. I was simply using MacApp as
an illustration point since it is a subject that I am fairly
comfortable with. I didn't want to get ripped apart on this list for
talking about a Cocoa technology which I may not completely know
about, and hence may have spoken incorrectly about.
Andrew
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