Re: (newbie)cocoa and darwin 6.0....

[bayleyp]

At 10:53 AM +0100 10/19/02, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 03:31  am, bayleyp@attbi.com wrote:
>
>>There is an open source working version of Core Foundation for Darwin which 
>>has been ported to some other platforms. The only difference between it and 
>>the closed-source version of CF is the closed version supports conversion of 
>>CFURLs to and from FSRefs which is very useful.
>
>That is incorrect. CF-Lite is missing lots of functionality of CF. 
>CFNotification springs to mind as the most obvious example, but there may be 
>others.
>
>>I still don't know how to create an FSRef without closed source libs |-(
>
>See File Manager... For example, FSPathMakeRef. In fact, the code for 
>CFURLCopyFSRef *IS* in CF-Lite (CoreFoundation/URL.subproj/URL.c, near the 
>bottom), it's just #ifdef'd out.
>
> -- Finlay

Yes yes, it does it using Carbon. But how does Carbon do it? After all Carbon 
does run on top of Darwin, and FSRefs also behave correctly on UFS volumes.