Jon Guyer wrote:
>  
>  I have code I wrote over twenty years ago that still runs on Tiger.
>  
>  Breaking backwards compatibility is *not* a hallmark of Apple.
>  Terminating 64-bit Carbon is *not* a hallmark of breaking backwards  
>  compatibility.

Well, I can't run Classic applications on my MacBook...

And, as I understand it, the Java-Cocoa bridge that Apple was promoting 
so heavily a few years ago is now very fragile.

>  
>  You have a pile of 64-bit Carbon code lying around that doesn't work  
>  anymore? I didn't think so.

No, but I do have a fairly large pile of Tcl and Python code calling Tk 
routines, and I *am* nervous about that code no longer working at some 
point in the future because the Carbon frameworks that underpin Tk-Aqua 
have been deprecated and removed from OS X.

>  
>  I am pleased that the various completely pointless 64-bit whine fests  
>  have mostly died out over on Carbon-Dev. I am *not* pleased to see  
>  them resurrected here.

Sorry about that--I'm the one who started the thread. I've contributed 
to some of the discussion over there as well.

Some of my anxieties may be simply derived from the fact that I am not a 
select member of ADC, didn't attend WWDC, and have no special knowledge 
that would be covered by NDA. Maybe 32-bit Carbon will be supported 
forever and there's no need to worry. If so, great. But I certainly 
*don't* see Tcl/Tk developers up in arms on any other OS because the 
platform vendor has decided to forcibly migrate third-party developers 
to its preferred API by deprecating the hell of out of the crufty but 
long-running API that is the foundation of most established commercial 
and cross-platform development on that system.

--Kevin

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Tcl-mac mailing list
tcl-mac@[...].net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-mac