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Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
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Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?


  • Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
  • From: Hex Star <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:23:31 -0800

there are some legally debateable methods you could use to try and see
for yourself if it is or not... hint hint ;-)

On 11/5/05, Andrei Tchijov <email@hidden> wrote:
> This is interesting.  How come that one of flagship applications is
> based on platform which should "ride into Sunset" one day?
>
> GNUStep does have Windows port (at least partial port) but it is not
> Cocoa by long shot.
>
> I guess my real question is,
>         - Does anyone on the list has any experience of porting applications
> from Mac OS X (Cocoa) to other platforms ?
> I just mentioned iTunes because I can not believe that Apple does not
> have some sort of portability layer.  I developed enterprise
> applications for most part of my professional carrier and I am
> convinced that single source + portability layer is the only way to
> go when you need to cater to more then one platform.
>
> On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Andy Kim wrote:
>
> > Actually, it's not a Cocoa app in any platform. It's a Carbon app
> > on the Mac. There is no such thing as Cocoa for Windows. iTunes on
> > windows is probably just built on the Win32 api or MFC.
> >
> > There used to be something like cocoa in windows for webobjects
> > back in the days (i forget what it's called, yellow something...).
> >
> > Closest thing to cocoa on any other platform is GNUStep. It's an
> > implementation of openstep, which is a direct descendent of cocoa.
> > I'm not sure if they've ported it to windows though.
> >
> >
> > On Nov 5, 2005, at 7:59 PM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:
> >
> >> I guess if we are talking about Mac OS X version, then most likely
> >> answer will be YES.  What about Windows version?  Does anyone
> >> actually knows how exactly Windows version of iTunes were
> >> developed?  Does Apple have "Cocoa for Windows" API?  Any chance
> >> they will release it?
> >>
> >>
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