Re: When does Carbon completely?

On 23 Oct 2009, at 16:05, Uli Kusterer wrote:

> Mind you: This has nothing to do with internal details of the menu  
> bar on the Mac: It is much more effort to test and maintain code for  
> public consumption, public APIs. I can entirely see us still having  
> the same old "Carbon" menu bar code under the hood ten years from  
> now. It just won't be a public API, and Apple will only be using it  
> internally. If you look at the system frameworks, a lot of 64-bit  
> HIToolbox actually exists, but isn't available. My guess is that's  
> because Apple only developed and debugged it as far as they needed  
> it for their own apps/system services, and didn't fix stuff they'd  
> have to address to make it suitable for general consumption.

Or they may plan on replacing it with other code over time (as opposed  
to all-at-once), but don't want anyone using it in the meantime as  
they've already decided it's going away.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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