Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard. "At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid. However, according to the latest on Apple's website, Leopard's 64-bit frameworks will include the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger, Cocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework. In addition, Apple confirms that Carbon will not be 64-bit on the Carbon Developer mailing list." In addition, the readme file included with Leopard's developer preview says G3 support will be dropped from Leopard.
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2007-05-12
Umm... I believe we should have known that G3 support is going the way of the Dodo since last year's WWDC because , umm, Apple actually said it outright.
Why all the Carbon hate?
I also don't think the report that 64 bit Carbon has been dropped is correct, although I may be wrong since I'm not attending WWDC'07. Last year, the official party line was that legacy Carbon technologies like QuickDraw and SoundManager will not be made 64 bit, but if one uses their modern equivalent (Quartz, CoreAudio, etc.) the rest of the Carbon code can very well be 64 bit.
Well, I guess we will find out sooner or later what's the deal with this, but for now I don't believe Apple will so drastically part form what they were preaching last year.