Porting a cocoa app to carbon?

I have a few cocoa apps that i would like to port to carbon because cocoa views are just not widely supported enough yet for that I am doing. I know this question is vague, but is this a "do it in a weekend" feat, or am I just going to end up beating my head against a wall? I just want general responses/tips/warning from anyone who has been in this same predicament. Also... if by some feat of magic there is a plugin or some way to automate or simplify this process... I am ALL ears!
Thank you.

etresoft wrote:
You are worrying about serving an existing customer base that already has a set of legacy tools and is reluctant to change. Are they really your market?
How long is it going to take you to develop your software? When your software is ready (using Carbon or Cocoa), what is your market going to look like then?
It seems to me that the Carbon market is already established and reluctant to change. It is currently the largest market in this industry, but it is still the market of the past. It is only going to get smaller. All those tools aren't even sold anymore. You need to work on a product targeted at what the market is going to look like in the future.
I understand. Thank you for listening to my ramblings and offering advice. I am not producing any product at the moment... just getting a feel for the market and the current and possible future stumbling blocks. I am trying to allow for backward compatibility without having to code everything twice (but it looks like that is unavoidable), like back in the pre OSX days of the 90's where you had to code a carbonized plugin, a legacy plugin and a 68k plugin because studios clung tenatiously to the $10,000 Mac Quadras they had purchased just a few years before (understandably so at that price). Apple sees things this way as well as is evidenced by Rosetta (currently) and the 68k emulator back in the MacOS days.
As of right now, the way the market looks is that it is a carbon market since none of the major players like MOTU, Digidesign, Steinberg support/adequately-support cocoa views, and Digidesign's Pro Tools (which holds the lion's share of the market) is not even ported to Leopard yet... and I anticipate from experience issues and bugs with their cocoa implementation when it does happen, so i don't expect bug-free compliance immediately or even for a period after they are forced into cocoa when they all eventually go 64-bit native... which is likely a period of a year or more.
That sort of compatibility would sidestep stigma as well. Many users don't care about cocoa/carbon, SSE/SSE3, or Aqua from their left foot. They just know that if they attempt to load up a plug in their DAW and the UI does nothing that obviously tour product is "broken".... and will slag you off online as such. I have seen it repeatedly in comments on various press releases: "don't buy this, I loaded it up and it didn't do anything". I lament the slow change in this particular nitch, but that is the way of it. I would love if overnight I could optimize for Intel/Leopard/64-bit/Cocoa, but as it is, we are in 10.5.2 and plugins have to be built against older SDKs and optimized for 10.3 deployment, PowerPC and Carbon to be completely compatible across the board.
So maybe I am barking up the wrong tree. Instead of backporting my tools, maybe I should be focusing on a compatibility translator of sorts... maybe a carbon wrapper or something like that.
Thank you for your help.

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