Re: Checking OS Version with Cocoa
Re: Checking OS Version with Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Checking OS Version with Cocoa
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:00:37 -0500
on 03-01-04 11:19 PM, MarketLogix Developer at email@hidden wrote:
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I'm new here and I must confess that I do not yet know the
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exact description of Cocoa. I suppose that it equates to the
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proprietary extensions, ie. Frameworks that Apple has added
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to the (GNU) ObjC language. Plus libaries of Classes of course.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be snappish.
Cocoa is an application framework -- a very large and well-integrated
library of classes. It happens to be implemented in Objective-C, because the
original designers of the framework (NeXT) wanted to take advantage of the
dynamic nature of Objective-C. Apple has also bridged the framework to Java,
with some degree of success. Back when Cocoa was NeXTStep, it ran on Sun
Solaris, Windows, and other platforms, too -- or so I'm told. It is rumored
to still do so within the top secret labs at Apple.
My question about how many Cocoa applications run on Solaris, etc., today
was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, in response to your platform-independent
code snippet for detecting the OS version. The answer is zero (although
there are apparently a number of places where NeXTStep is still running on
non-Apple platforms.
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