Sunday, 6 September 2009

Apple open-sourcing their apps?


Shirley you can't be serious? Anyone looked the examples in Snow Leopard's Developer Tools recently?

See that one called TextEdit? Yep, that's that TextEdit application you find in /Applications. The history of changes is an interesting read in README.rtf.

I wonder why they've done this? OK, so I'm pretty sure Apple aren't going to be publishing source code to all their other apps any time soon. I'm guessing it's to give other developers a look how to do things "the Apple way".

3 comments:

Chris said...

But hasn't TextEdit always been part of the Developer documentation of OS X? It was originally from NEXTSTEP... not sure if the source code was available then though.

More interesting are the RubyCocoa examples in the same folder, and the lack of PythonCocoa!

I've just been looking in the Developer folder for OpenCL examples following your last post, but alas none. Do current/older graphics cards even support it yet?

Welcome back to your blog BTW!

Steve said...

I've never noticed TextEdit in the installed examples before. Perhaps it's been available online? But what happened to all the other examples from Leo's Xcode? They're all online now, leaving just a few installed.

Regarding OpenCL, http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html details which graphics cards are supported - it seems only the latest ones are. My aging 18 month old ATI Radeon HD 2600 isn't even supported :-(

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