Thanks for this summary. BTW are there still plans for adding the ft2
and biblt plugins in the main svn repository?

On 25/12/2007, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> (a) Carbon is going away...
> (b) Cocoa is 32/64bit
> (c) Ian and I have been talking a bit about what to do, nothing
> decided yet.
>
>
> The carbon part is used for:
>
> 1) the 1/60 timer
> 2) file path name encoding/translation
> 3) apple events
> 4) clipboard interaction
> 5) Display
> 6) keyboard/mouse
> 7) menu bar
> 8) openGL
> 9) drag/drop
> 10) internet configuration information
> 11) alias support for os-9 file aliases
>
> Other items shared by the unix os-x vm and use core foundation logic
> or BSD calls, but aren't 64 bit aware would be
>
> 12) Midi support
> 13) joystick support
> 14) sound support
> 15) UUID generation
> 16) Socket support
>
> On Dec 25, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Damien Pollet wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > how much do you depend on Carbon in the Mac VM ? Do you use it for
> > stuff besides the Displaying and UI ?
>
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