Re: When does Carbon completely?

On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Eric Gorr <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> This discussion will ultimately be purely speculative since Apple  
> isn't going to tell us, but I am still interested to learn what  
> calculations others are making.
>
> We already know that Carbon is a deprecated technology. What I am  
> now wondering is when does it go the way of "Classic" and become  
> completely unsupported and non-functional?
>
> My current thinking is that OS 11 will be the line in the sand (both  
> for 32-bit apps and Carbon). You will need to be Cocoa/Core  
> Foundation & 64-Bit and anything else will just cease to function.
>
> So, when will that come?
>
> What do you mean by "Carbon"? Folks use that word to mean various  
> scopes of system APIs....

The high-level toolbox - the GUI stuff that isn't supported under 64- 
bit.