On 15 jun 2007, at 17:00, memsom wrote:
Rumour has it that the Mac OS X 10.5 will not have 64bit Carbon
support
under Intel.
It's not just a rumour, and it's not Intel-only. Several parts of
Carbon will not be 64 bit under Mac OS X 10.5. See the "64-bit
Carbon" and "Is Carbon Viable?" threads at
http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Jun/thrd3.html
(and on the following pages)
In particular the messages from Eric Schlegel (he's from Apple), e.g.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Jun/msg00426.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Jun/msg00433.html
That means that Intel based Carbon based apps will only ever
be 32bit and that if 32bit support is ever withdrawn (likely?)
Carbon will
be gone.
Nobody can say how likely that is. It definitely won't happen in the
near future, since there are a lot of Carbon apps out there.
I know that the FPC GUI ports under Mac OS X tend to use Carbon....
anyone
heard any definite reports on this? I know OS News has one, but
that is
allegedly still hear-say. Is it even possible/practical to use
Cocoa to
build a GUI and then use Pascal code to do the logic?
Yes, it is (just as practical to do the logic in C or C++).
Jonas
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