Carbon isn't really deprecated, although parts of it are. There are many Carbon libraries that work perfectly well and will probably never be ported to Cocoa.
It's basically the same kind of statement as saying "AWT is deprecated." Well, parts of it, yes. Specifically the early native widgets that no one really uses much anymore. But much of the "core" of the graphics stack is still contained in the AWT libraries, things like Toolkit and Graphics2D, etc. Rob On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > On Nov 10, 4:36 am, David Orriss Jr <codethou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Nov 8, 3:19 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You can run windows on your mac hardware if push comes to shove. >> >> Yea or I could have a frontal lobotomy... ;-) > > Well, yes. Or you could install linux instead :) > > >> True with 3.6. Not true with 3.5 - that's got some weird hard-coded >> references to the Mac-specific frameworks in the OS X version.. > > Not to mention no cocoa stack IIRC, only carbon (also deprecated, and > quite a bit farther along the deprecated path than java is, i.e. > crappy 64-bit support). But, Java hasn't left Mac OS X yet. By the > time that door is truly closed (possibly when OS X 10.7 rolls around, > might be as late as 10.8), 3.5 will be ancient history. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
