Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] help for a levelmeter]
From: David Gerard Matthews (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 23:34:15 EET
Paul Davis wrote:
>OS X, despite being "unix", actually promotes/requires that
>applications are written using an API (i.e. a set of libraries) that
>bear little resemblance to anything traditionally called "unix". so
>even this will not help the porting effort. in theory, the gnustep
>people have a system very similar to nextstep, and people say that OS
>X's Cocoa layer (did i get that right, or is it Carbon?) is very, very
>similar to nextstep. i doubt that gnustep is ready to act as a porting
>platform for OS X apps, and frankly, i doubt that it ever will be.
>
>--p
>
Yeah, from what I understand, it's much easier to port from Un*x to OSX
than vice versa. A far greater number of
*nix libraries have been ported from the *nix world to OSX than the
other way around. You can even run X windows
on OSX, even though it isn't the normal native windowing system, so if
you didn't feel like messing with carbon/cocoa, you
don't actually have to. (Although I don't think very many OSX users
actually have X windows installed, nor do the vast majority
care to bother with it.)
-dgm
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Sat Nov 09 2002 - 23:47:29 EET