An Introduction To MacApp 0.1

Date: From: To: January 21, 1985 Larry Tesler ~ Larry Rosenstein, Ken Doyle, Scott Wallace, Gaby Hirl, Dan lngalls, Barry Haynes, Yu Ying Chow, Mark Lentczner, Chris Espinosa, Andy AverilL Scott Knaster, Russ Daniels, Pete Cressman, Judy York, Amy Rapport, Eileen Crombie . . Subject: Bud Tribble, Jerome Coonen, Rony Sebok . . Steve Capps, Martin Haeberli, Rick Meyers, Al Hoffman . . Gursharan Sidhu. . Dan Cochran. . Hasmig Seropian, Cary Clark, Bob Belleville Expandable Application: Release Plan This is a release plan for the Expandable Application (aka Generic Appl ication, Standard Appl ication, Macintosh ToolKit, Vantage). All releases will be made through the Software Library. Non-Apple users will contact Technical Support for help. In turn, Technical Support will forward questions they can't answer to my group. Release 0.0 (•Phi") is planned for January 23, 1985. lts authors were Larry Rosenstein, Scott Wallace, and Ken Ooyle. One of two sample programs is by Gaby Hirl. Release 0.0 is intended for use by Rony Sebok (who is writing an electronic mail user interface)„ Russ Daniels (to prepare for eventual technical support of the product), and Kurt Schmucker and Andy Averilt {to write documentation). lt is missing many smal 1 but critical features; memory management is not yet smart; the Pascal syntax is not the tatest Wirth-approved variety; it is virtually undocumented; it has not been used outside my group. Release D.1 c-·chi•) is planned for February L 1985. The audience wi 11 be expanded to include other Apple employees who program Macintosh appl ications in Pascal, and a number of outside testers to be selected by Scott Knaster and myself. The outside testers wi 11 come from the ranks of university customers and certif ied developers with experiPnce in both Macintosh ToolBox use and object-oriented programming (e.g.„ Lisa Clascal). lt will be like Release 0.0 except it will have the Wirth-approved new syntax, scrap management, and various m inor improvements. We plan ta teach an in-hause course in February based an release 0.1. Release D.3 („Psi„) is planned for March 15, 1985. There will a little more documentation. The audience will be enlarged to include some outside testers with no specific prior experience. The capabilities will be expanded to include smarter memory management and to t ie other loose ends. Release 0.5 („Omega•) is planned for April 241 1985. lt will have the final architecture and fairly complete documentation. The audience wi 11 be expanded to include as many developers as we can suppart. Release 0.5 wi 11 never be a „Product 11 because the Lisa Workshop wil 1 be needed to compi lel 1 but it should make Macintosh application development easier for Lisa owners. Release 0. 7 („Alpha") is planned for around June 1, actually, one month after the later of: Release 0.5; Alpha of the New Macintosh Development System. This version will be compatible with Objective C, support applications in assembler . . and suppor…