Re: Is Open Transport Dying?
Re: Is Open Transport Dying?
- Subject: Re: Is Open Transport Dying?
- From: Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:27:12 -0800
--- At Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:15:37 +0000, Quinn wrote:
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2. If you have a Mac OS X-only product derived from a Mac OS 9
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product, and you have existing OT code that you ported to Carbon, you
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should *not* eliminate it just for the sake of eliminating it. You
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might consider making the switch if:
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o you have strong evidence that the OT compatibility library is a
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performance bottleneck,
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o your existing OT code has bugs that are causing your customers
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problems,
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o you have Windows or UNIX code that you can port over cheaply,
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and thus eliminate a big chunk of Mac-specific code from your
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cross platform product, or
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o your OT code is old and scary and you want to eliminate it as
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part of the natural cycle of development.
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Quinn's advice is very good for most traditional applications. However I
would like to add one more to this list.
o your OT code uses features not supported in the OT
compatibility library. For example the OT compatibility library
does not support raw ethernet endpoints.
There's not a lot of us out there that use this feature, but for those of
us who do this is an important point that I was personally not aware of.
...Duane