Apple Windows apps?

Finlay Dobbie finlay.dobbie at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 07:25:33 PDT 2007


On 16/06/07, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/06/2007, at 9:53 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>
> > On 16/06/07, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:
> >> If the right Core* bits have been ported then Cocoa (and/or Carbon ?)
> >> should work.  Shouldn't it/they?
> >
> > In a word, no.
>
> Please elaborate.  What am I missing?
>
> I thought Apple has been factoring out all the core stuff and then
> Cocoa and Carbon were modified to work on top of them.
> CoreFoundation, Core* ... (the necessary graphics and other parts of
> the layer below the Application Frameworks).

That's a gross oversimplification. Also, it's patently obvious if you
go look at Safari for Windows that it's not a Cocoa application.

 -- Finlay


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