Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:26:15 -0500
For the most part Apple has not seen a need to port its internal
applications to other platforms. iTunes is a major exception in this
sense. QuickTime and FileMaker are examples that spring to mind.
In general, I think we can assume that it is easier for Apple to port
a Carbon application to Windows than a Cocoa application because:
1. Carbon's API demands a language that is commonly available on
Windows (Straight C).
2. Carbon's event-loop model is pretty similar, in my limited
exposure, to the Win32 API.
3. Apple's existing port of QuickTime to Windows involved a
relatively substantial amount of "portability" code that could
theoretically be leveraged by other Apple ports of Carbon code.
Daniel
On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:
- 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.
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