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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Bedrock, What Do We Know So Far?
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <ksand-151292180642@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:11:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.231532.9635@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
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- In article <1992Dec15.231532.9635@ncar.ucar.edu>, urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu
- (Art Urban (PROFS)) wrote:
- > Okay, so I keep hearing about Bedrock. I hear that there will be no further
- > upgrades to MacApp due to Bedrock. Bedrock's developers have a sword of
- > Damocles hanging over their heads while they talk.
-
- > So my question is, what do we really know about Bedrock? What is it? Can I
- > stop using TCL? Will there be *good* documentation? Will it include an
- > interface construction kit? What will it do? What will it not do? Who are
- > the developers? When *might* we see it? Will it be Apple's answer to NeXT's
- > NeXT Step? ...
-
- I'm sure a lot of developers have a lot of questions concerning Bedrock,
- and the technology will be revealed, don't worry. The issue just now is
- that before we start describing the picture, we need to have the feature
- set frozen. In other
- words it's better that the product is fully described, than hinting about
- things that might or might not be there.
-
- Start expecting to get far more information from Symantec (who really owns
- the product) and us early next year.
-
- Meanwhile, if you want to ship products, use TCL or MacApp. If you want
- to start worrying about the future, start decreasing your dependencies
- on the framework concerning your own 'intellectual property'. This implies
- that you should start looking at writing your own 'application framework'
- and use MacApp/TCL/Bedrock as the GUI framework. This strategy makes
- is fairly easy to transport code between frameworks.
-
-
- Kent
- PS: Please read the disclaimer, I'm not even actively working with
- Bedrock issues any longer.
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