darwin mc

Scott Raney raney at metacard.com
Thu Jan 24 11:53:00 EST 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 "Geoff Canyon" <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com> wrote:

> At 11:11 AM -0700 1/23/02, Scott Raney wrote:

>  What's the possibility of a Cocoa-based MetaCard, then? Would that
> be closer to MetaCard's Unix roots, and therefore simple? Or is
> Cocoa as separated from OS X's Unix underpinnings as Carbon is, and
> therefore the task is more akin to a whole new rewrite?

Pretty much the latter.  The UNIX parts would be the same, but the GUI
parts would be different.  That would be a savings of only about 1/3
of the effort required to support a new platform, making fleshing out
the Carbon engine with more UNIX support the more attractive option.
  Regards,
    Scott

> regards,
> 
> Geoff

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