Re: Carbon CFM callbacks for CFNetServices
Re: Carbon CFM callbacks for CFNetServices
- Subject: Re: Carbon CFM callbacks for CFNetServices
- From: "Dean Dauger" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:59:54 -0700
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At 7:10 -0700 21/5/02, Dean Dauger wrote:
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> That is,
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>can I depend on this mechanism working in current and future versions of OS
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>X?
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Apple's official policy (as set by *way* upper management--please
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don't shoot the messenger) is that developers should move away from
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CFM and towards Mach-O, which obviates the need for a supported
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version of NewRoutineDescriptor (which is basically what this code
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does). Hence we have no plans to introduce such a call. Therefore,
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if you continue to use CFM you must use ugly hacks like this. Sorry.
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Having said that, I must admit that I do most of my X development in
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Mach-O these days. CodeWarrior Mach-O rocks! Of course, that's not
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much help if you want to continue to deploy on Mac OS 9 (unless you
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go the packaged route, which is kinda klunky, especially for pre 9.0
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users).
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*sigh*
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S+E
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--
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
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Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your reply! Yes, that policy is not that surprising, and I
got that feeling at WWDC, but it's nice to hear from someone like you to
help connect the dots. Thank you.
As for my being able to move to Mach-O, it's "not yet". Many of my users
use OS 9 or mixed computing clusters of Macs running OS 9 and OS X, so I
clearly need my code to support both (I've been using NSL/SLP for a year and
a half now). My estimate is that my users will probably need 9
compatibility for a couple years still.
However, I see Rendezvous as a good thing, and, with the help of Kevin
Arnold and Marc Krochmal of Apple, I have a migration path into
Rendezvous/ZeroConfig. To do the migration, though, I'm hoping that the CFM
callback hack will last until the migration is complete, and then I can
switch everything over to Mach-O.
Thanks for the tips! The people on this list have been very helpful.
Thanks,
Dean
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