From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on MAC OS X 10.3 Date: 18 Dec 2003 17:44:32 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071763662 32146 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 16:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl , Ted Lemon , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 17:07:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AX0ga-0007SR-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AX0ga-0007Td-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AX1ZY-0001Vr-Mg for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AX1VV-0008WO-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AX1Ir-0005T5-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AX1Hn-0005J3-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:46:04 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 41335 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2003 15:44:35 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Dec 2003 15:44:35 -0000 Original-To: Steven Tamm In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18744 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18744 Steven Tamm writes: > IMHO, there is little benefit that would be derived from switching > from Carbon to Cocoa, but there really isn't a need to choose, since > use of Carbon and Cocoa (i.e. ObjC) can be intermixed. There is very > little functionality that Cocoa exposes that Carbon doesn't, and > that's mostly confined to the pasteboard. However, the image APIs > in Cocoa are a lot easier to use than the similar APIs in Carbon; so > the big missing hole (mac/README) in the port might be easier to write > in Cocoa. Well it seems that YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu has already done most of the porting, so this would seem rather academic now. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk