Re: [Chicken-users] Cocoa Bridge and Chicken gui repl

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Thomas Christian Chust wrote:

> I would deem it highly unlikely that the Carbon API will be deprecated
> any time soon:


"Fundamentally, Apple engineering is focused on Cocoa much more than
Carbon, and Apple's engineering management made the decision to un-
support 64-bit Carbon to emphasize that fact." - Eric Schlegel, Apple

from: <http://www.carbondev.com/site/?page=64-bit+Carbon>

IOW, Apple has already deprecated Carbon on 64-bit platforms. The  
Carbon GUI libs are not present in 64-bit Leopard.

Apple will certainly keep large portions of what were formerly known  
as Carbon (i.e., the non-GUI parts) because even parts of Cocoa rely  
on these as well.

But going forward (i.e., when everything is 64-bit), you simply won't  
be able to do GUIs using Carbon - Apple isn't porting the Carbon GUI  
libs to 64-bit.

regards,

Ralph




Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
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