Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Silly question. Is iTunes Cocoa application?
- From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:25:32 +0000
> 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.
That is why Carbon will be around for a very long while (not to mention huge
apps like PhotoShop will probably never be rewritten in Cocoa).
We have one app that is Carbon and has been ported to Windows. Our other Mac
apps are still Carbon as well, but will migrate to Cocoa in their next major
versions.
I think people misunderstand (or "misunderestimate" to quote GWB) the roles
of Carbon and Cocoa. Cocoa is not really a replacement for Carbon... Each
works well in certain situations.
Trygve
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