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Re: "Jaguar" additions
From: |
Marcus Müller |
Subject: |
Re: "Jaguar" additions |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:33:05 +0200 |
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 08:58 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
CoreFoundation has no relation at all to NeXT; it was entirely created
by
Apple as a C API to do things similar to what Foundation does. Apple's
Foundation is itself based on CoreFoundation now, or so I hear.
This is correct. You can see it in all stacktraces. Some time ago Nat!
<address@hidden> did make some benchmarking of the new
Foundation (CF based) vs. the old OPENSTEP Foundation - with disastrous
results. The new Foundation is much slower than the old Foundation
was ... part of the CoreFoundation code is open (included in Darwin),
sporting some interesting bugs ;-) Nat! found several and reported them
some time ago, I'm not sure if they're gone however (altogether we
reported around 150 Bugs ...). Interesting thing to note: Apple's
Bugreporter dubbed 'Radar' once allowed you to see all open issues -
making it possible for us to track an NFS crash bug in their database as
being known since '98. 'Radar' is closed now, you can't look at other
incidents that you don't own anymore ...
I'm kinda trying to figure out just what the point of this is; playing
follow-the-leader is useless, in large part because there are huge areas
where "the leader" simply can't be followed, because of trade mark,
license, patent issues, or just the fact that they have a _lot_ of
people
working on OSX full-time.
Although I do agree on this issue, there's no reason to prevent people
from at least trying to catch up. Personally I do think that Zeroconf
isn't that important and other things (especially the GUI) have to be
pushed more, but then again that's just my opinion. If someone has
talent & energy in implementing the Zeroconf stuff, why not?
But concerning feature-completeness: GNUstep wasn't feature complete
compared with Apple's Foundation long before Jaguar. Think about
Applescript and its extensions in Apple's Foundation. You won't find
them in GNUstep (thank God for that! ;-).
Cheers,
Marcus
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Re: "Jaguar" additions, David Ayers, 2002/08/20
Re: "Jaguar" additions, BALATON Zoltan, 2002/08/27