[Ham-Mac] OS X development

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:36:27 -0600

On 2/19/02 6:10 AM, "Chris Smolinski" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been distributing as .sit files, which seems to work (assuming
> folks have Stuffit installed, perhaps a bad assumption). I initally
> distributed as .sea, then got the flood of "why does your program need
> Classic" emails. It seems that there's a core group of OSX users who
> despise Classic, probably related to the group who think that Cocoa apps
> are the only true OSX apps, and Carbon is somehow "fake"  ;-)  (I do
> understand that running Classic can slow things down a little, and some
> people resist even installing the Classic OS on their system, so I can
> see the issue) 

Chris, I'm running OSX only and have eliminated all but two essential
classic apps that I almost never use. Since I don't launch Classic on
startup, I cringe when I go to open an archive file and see it launch
Classic -- it just takes a lot more time. I don't despise Classic and think
Carbon is an excellent bridge -- I just don't want to waste time opening
classic just to unstuff a file.

73 

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