Re: OpenOffice.org on OS X and GNUstep

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Donnerstag, 03.11.05 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Adrian Robert:

> On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Sean Fulton wrote:
>
> > On 2005-10-07 10:23:07 -0400, Adrian Robert <arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu> 
> > said:
> >
> >
> > If they're paying attention at all they won't even consider Carbon. I 
> > believe Apple has essentially told developers that Carbon is dead. If 
> > you want your app to run (well) on OS X on Intel, you have to develop 
> > with Cocoa. Porting something to Carbon now would be a waste of time.
>
> That's good news if so, but if the story so far is any indication, 
> Carbon will continue to maintain a very vigorous life of its own, 
> regardless of what Apple wants.  Microsoft, Adobe, and others won't 
> rewrite their apps, and even Apple would have a lot of work to do, 
> redoing Finder, iTunes, etc..  (I have NO idea why they essentally 
> *rewrote* Workspace Manager in Carbon in the first place, but there 
> you have it..)

They did not rewrite Workspace Manager in Carbon they killed it and 
ported stuff from the existing Mac OS 9 Finder to Carbon, partially to 
prove that Carbon was a viable way to do such things since the major 
companies like Adobe and Quark were not convinced and thought about 
dropping Mac support at all. Even the sheer existence of that thing 
called Carbon is a result of this. OPENSTEP was ported to PPC and 
somewhat ready (called Rhapsody) but the application suppliers did not 
jump on that train - basically to avoid having their apps rewritten in 
ObjC/OpenStep.

>

regards, Lars