Re: New Finder
Re: New Finder
- Subject: Re: New Finder
- From: Daniel DeCovnick <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:07:41 -0700
The dogfood they were referring to there was Carbon, not Cocoa. ;-)
Cocoa may have been teh new hotness for Mac developers, but OpenStep
was tried and true already. Mac devs wanted to make sure Carbon
wasn't just Classic with a prettier face and a slightly longer lifespan.
-Dan
On Jul 9, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
I agree that there may not be any such thing as "pure" Cocoa, but I
do recall something that I read on some mailing list awhile back,
that Steve Jobs said, of the Finder in OS X (a long time ago), that
Apple would be "eating their own dog food" while developing it.
My question, as absurd as I now realize it to be (due to the nature
of NDA), was intended to ask whether the new Finder would be
utilizing the Cocoa runtime, as opposed to simply employing
CoreFoundation. I shall have to wait and see.
Cheers,
Andrew
On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:
At 9:18 PM -0700 6/12/07, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
Hi, all,
I had a quick question that's been gnawing a huge hole in my side.
Could anyone not under NDA (or, if it is acceptable under NDA)
tell me whether the Finder is now pure Cocoa?
The answer is irrelevant. There is no such thing as "Pure" Cocoa,
or "Pure" anything.
Cocoa is an object oriented interface to Apple's frameworks and
libraries. There are other interfaces, such as C interfaces
commonly called "Carbon", and other C interfaces known as POSIX or
BSD APIs.
All of Apple's code uses a mix of those interfaces. They are not
parallel stacks of code (and really never were.)
Some of Cocoa is built on Carbon is built on BSD is built on POSIX
is built on... And even that quip is oversimplification.
There are many interfaces. Some are faster than others, depending
on what sort of "faster" you're talking about.
-pmb
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