On 25 Jun 2007, at 20:49, Kevin Walzer wrote:

>  Breaking backwards compatability is a hallmark of Apple. They have  
>  done
>  it countless times over the years. Contrast this to Windows, where
>  applications written a decade ago still run without modification on  
>  Vista.

Then again, I can still run OS 9 stuff on my 10.4.10 laptop ... :-)

>  I'm still evaluating my options with regards to my own applications,
>  which all use Tk-Aqua as their toolkit and therefore are affected  
>  by the
>  API changes in Carbon. It's my hope that Tk-Aqua can evolve to keep up
>  with the API changes, i.e. the relevant parts are migrated to Cocoa if
>  necessary. If that proves too technically difficult, however, and
>  Tk-Aqua remains a 32-bit Carbon toolkit, then I'm faced with the
>  possibility of rewriting my applications (several thousand lines of
>  code) in some Cocoa-supporting framework. I'm *not* eager to travel  
>  that
>  road.

Well, as mentioned earlier, you don't need to rush to any decisions.  
The applications you have created will continue to run, as they have  
done, for the foreseeable future. Carbon will be included in OS X for  
a long time to come. Of course, if you need 64-bit for something,  
there may be issues.

            /  http://www.fishpool.com/~setok/


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