[moderator] Re: Carbon / Simbl / How to develop the safari plugin ?

It's already been touched on, but to make it explicit (or more  
explicit than any posts I've seen come across so far): this was a  
mistake on Scott's part. In addition to contributing to multiple lists  
(among other resources), Scott moderates cocoa-dev (and others?),  
which as an Apple list has stricter restrictions than we do, and he  
got a couple of messages crossed between lists.

I got email from Scott yesterday apologizing after he realized his  
mistake, but I didn't address it with the list as I'm not the person  
who normally deals with moderation here and I hadn't determined the  
appropriate way to address it. (That person is in fact unavailable at  
the moment.)


Without touching on whether or not you _should_ use Simbl or speculate  
on Apple's position on Carbon, it is at least generally acceptable to  
discuss those topics here on macosx-dev. (But obviously, do please try  
to keep it civil.)

--
Andrew Abernathy
The Omni Group


On Oct 28, 2009, at 5:40 AM, Francis Devereux wrote:

> On 28 Oct 2009, at 06:05, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> Simbl is a third party hack.
>>
>> and it isn’t appropriate for discussion on this list.
>
> Why? There is nothing in the information at http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-dev 
>  that says that only Apple-supported APIs can be discussed on this  
> list.  In fact, it says "As long as your question is specific to Mac  
> OS X development, you're in the right place.".
>
> I can understand why discussion of non-Apple-supported techniques is  
> banned on lists hosted by Apple, but I do think that discussion of  
> unsupported techniques can be valuable and this list seems like a  
> good place to do it.  I don't have a problem with people saying "you  
> shouldn't do that" but I think that saying "you can't even discuss  
> that" is taking things too far.
>
> Francis
>
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