On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: > If I don't need MacOS9 support anymore... is dropping Carbon as a > plugin target, acceptable? >
Don't understand. MacOS9/Carbon is classic, PEF is classic and while PEF can run on MacOSX, it can only run in a ppc environment. If the machine is i386 then Rosetta will take over to run the PEF application. Given that MachO is native to both ppc and i386, "dropping Carbon" is not acceptable, but a given in the world of MachO. "Carbon" was considered a temporary environment to allow developers to move away from classic (Carbon/PEF) and to enter Carbon/ MacOSX. However, Apple made also a decision to move away from Carbon/ MachO and we will be stuck in the end with Cocoa, due to the contagious tunnel vision bug NextStep/OpenStep people suffer from and that also has made the higher ranks at Apple ill. > Will MachO have good backwards compatability with MacOSX? MachO is MacOSX, as far as I can judge ;-), NEXTSTEP depends on Mach or NeXT-specific hardware. Alfred _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
