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Bug 317001

Summary: Deprecate Carbon
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Prakash Rangaraj <prakash>
Component: SWTAssignee: Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: alex.blewitt, contact, kim.moir, malaperle, mschrag, pwebster, remy.suen, skovatch
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: 3.8   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 317309    

Description Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-06-16 01:56:24 EDT 
Apple has unofficially deprecated Carbon and asks the developers to move on to Cocoa. Probably Eclipse can also follow the suit.
Comment 1 Mike Schrag CLA 2010-06-16 08:15:19 EDT 
6 months ago, i would never have agreed, but the SWT guys have really done a great job with the Cocoa build on 3.6. I finally switched a couple months ago, and I can actually recommend that my users switch as well. Good riddance to the Carbon build. I don't see any reason to continue support for it at this point.
Comment 2 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-06-17 14:35:16 EDT 
I think it will take a very long time for Apple to completely get rid of Carbon, but we also need to put a stake in the ground and put all of the effort into one version. This seems like as good a time as any to do that. There are a number of developers who are confused as to why there are multiple versions -- see some of the questions on StackOverflow.com, for example -- and we should do what we can to reduce that complexity.
Comment 3 Kim Moir CLA 2010-06-18 11:43:12 EDT 
I've opened bug 317309 to discuss removing other platforms from the build in 3.7.
Comment 4 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-08-23 17:09:14 EDT 
Taking ownership to get it out of the default inbox. Track bug 317309 to see the conversation about which platforms should go away.
Comment 5 Silenio Quarti CLA 2011-04-28 11:02:18 EDT 
The eclipse carbon build is still done in 3.7, but it is considered unsupported. We will probably stop building it the 3.8 cycle.
Comment 6 Kim Moir CLA 2011-04-28 11:05:31 EDT 
It will be my first order of business once 3.7 is released :-)
Comment 7 Kim Moir CLA 2011-09-20 10:27:05 EDT 
Can this bug be closed?  I removed carbon early in the 3.8 cycle.
Comment 8 Silenio Quarti CLA 2011-09-23 16:19:35 EDT 
Closing...