Re: Future of Cocoa
Re: Future of Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Future of Cocoa
- From: Saagar Jha via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:10:20 -0800
Saagar Jha
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 20:01, Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
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>> On Nov 19, 2019, at 6:24 PM, Pier Bover via Cocoa-dev
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> When/if Apple decides to deprecate Cocoa they will announce it many years
>>> ahead of time
>>>
>>
>> Like they did with 32 bits and OpenGL deprecation?
>>
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>
> The 32 bit depreciation has had a lot of discussion on this thread.
>
> Although depreciated OpenGL and related dynamic libraries are still present
> in system frameworks on macOS Catalina. I have an app that depends on OpenGL
> and GLU and it runs fine on Catalina.
>
> OpenGL was release 27 years ago and is used extensively in many technical
> fields. Perhaps this is why Apple has not yet removed these libraries from
> the system and GPU vendors still support the OpenGL compatibility profile.
There are also a number of system applications that depend on it, so the
framework will presumably stick around for a little while (though possibly be
stripped of its headers and moved into the PrivateFrameworks folder at some
point…)
> --Richard Charles
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