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- Item 2392313 19-Feb-91 00:58PST
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- From: GER.XDV0010 Germany - Linotype AG (R&D),IVR
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- To: KSAND@APPLE.COM@INTERNET# Gateway to Internet/BITNET/UUCP
- PASCOE1 Pascoe, Geoff
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: MacApp source code
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- The question of availability of MacApp source code is far more important than
- whether it is written in C++ or Object Pascal. Therefore I am really alarmed
- that people from Apple start telling us that the time will come where MacApp
- will be delivered as an object library.
- The people who disagree should remember the last time one of their methods was
- called from inside MacApp and they had no idea at all why. Or the last time
- they had to fix a bug in MacApp they would never have found without the source.
- Or the last time they browsed around in MacApps source code to understand what
- the hell there program dis. Or the last time they had to change MacApp because
- the developer´s ideas of what an application should be didn´t match their own.
- I´d like to recall a statement from Lee Harris, Pillar Corp., who developed a
- large application using MacApp: at the end of the development they all knew
- MacApp´s source code really well. Ask him why.
- I fully agree with Geoff´s statement:
- > To provide only object code to MacApp, at this stage, would be disastrous
- > for MacApp and the developers who depend upon it.
- Therefore, contrary to Kent´s proposal, I encourage all people NOT to
- >go back to technical talking
- (mainly about MacApp´s source code).
- Otherwise
- >this issue
- could also
- >not be one where we (Apple) "ask first and then do" but "do and then ask
- >forgiveness".
- (as Steve friedrich stated it on the C++ conversion).
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- Convince the Apple people that this must not be the case.
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- Yours
- Thomas Miller
- GER.XDV0010
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