Open Transport Status
Open Transport Status
- Subject: Open Transport Status
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:41:02 +0000
Greetings All
As I announced a few weeks back, Apple has recently published a new
Mac OS X-centric networking web page.
<
http://developer.apple.com/networking/>
Part of that effort was a discussion of legacy networking technologies.
<
http://developer.apple.com/networking/legacy.html>
Recently a couple of list threads have popped up concerning the
behaviour of the Open Transport API on Mac OS X (sorry I haven't been
very responsive recently; I've been travelling for business). If
you're writing new Open Transport code, you should take heed of the
following quote from the legacy networking technologies page.
Open Transport - Mac OS X provides an Open Transport compatibility
framework. This framework is no longer under active development. If
you're using the Open Transport framework, you should consider
switching to BSD Sockets or, better yet, use one of the higher-level
frameworks.
One consequence of the phrase "no longer under active development" is
that we are unlikely to make a change to the OT framework unless it
improves the reliability of existing applications in the field.
Developers writing new code are expected to accommodate the
idiosyncrasies of the current implementations on traditional Mac OS
and Mac OS X.
I realise that this seriously inconveniences some of you. Sorry.
However, Apple has made the decision to focus on improving new
technologies as quickly as possible, and that means that we have
leave some old things behind.
S+E
--
Quinn "The Eskimo!" <
http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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