A hint that Apple is rewriting the Carbon-based Finder and other Apple-authored applications in Cocoa, seems to be suggest that the company is doing its own housekeeping behind the scenes with the launch of Snow Leopard.
The Finder is Apple’s oldest Carbon-based application. Apple has already confirmed that it will not offer 64-bit support for Carbon and as Snow Leopard will be a 64-bit operating system, it seems to follow that Apple would have tasked itself with bringing elements of its own system into the 21st century.
When Apple moved from OS 9 to OS X developers used the Carbon Application Programmer Interface (API) in order to transition their programs from OS 9 to OS X.
It’s not just Apple who has homework to do: third-party developers, will need to rewrite their Carbon applications in Cocoa, or opt out of support for 64-bit computing in their applications.
Other new features in Snow Leopard are broader support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in iCal, Address Book and Mail, according to an Apple Insider report.
That report also claims that Apple is set to add an option for disc image-based installation called ImageBoot. This would enable users to set up disk images on a secondary partition or external drive, and then boot their system from one of those disk images at startup.
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