Re: New Finder
Re: New Finder
- Subject: Re: New Finder
- From: Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:20:10 -0700
Right, that's what I meant--that the "dog food" was a reference to
Carbon. Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Andrew
On Jul 10, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote:
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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