> On Oct 11, 2019, at 12:44 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Oct 10, 2019, at 6:18 PM, Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev >> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> Just a guess but perhaps management had an awakening when they found the >> time and effort expended to write the next even better version of Finder in >> Carbon was substantially more difficult and costly that the prior Cocoa >> version. > > The only Cocoa—>Carbon Finder transition I know of was before 10.0 shipped. > The development versions had a NeXT file manager with a Mac UI skin, but > before release that was replaced with a Carbon-ized port of (a subset of) the > MacOS 9 Finder. That Finder lived on for a few years before being replaced by > a new rewritten Cocoa version. > > —Jens
The NeXT/Rhapsody file manager was what I was referring to. As for the 10.0 Finder, I’m sure it shared code with the OS 9 finder, but it was an essentially new app based on PowerPlant (which the OS 9 Finder, to the best of my knowledge, was not). It did not feel much like the OS 9 Finder, and it was missing a lot of basic functionality that the OS 9 Finder had had, much of which was gradually reintroduced over the years. The Cocoa rewrite of the Finder did not appear until Snow Leopard was released in 2009. Notably, the Finder was still Carbon when Apple suddenly out of nowhere (again, from the perspective of an outsider) dropped the previously promised 64-bit Carbon support in 2007. As for the Dock, there was no OS 9 analogue to that at all, so the only conclusion can be that it was rewritten in Carbon from the ground up, when a Cocoa one had been previously available. This is difficult to explain other than as a statement of confidence in Carbon. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
