>> A short list of FOSS Mac software, some which may be worthy of >> looking at for inclusion in Etoile. >> >> http://joshual.me.uk/www/?q=node/106 > > Porting Cocoa software is not as easy as people think. > They tend to use QuickTime, CoreImage, CoreFoundation > and others in various places. > None of them are easy to be ported. > And since writing software is relatively easy on Mac, > they tend to have a lot of features which may not be necessary and > cause problems. > For example, I did try a couple time to port iTerm, but end up > writing TermX. > Because xcode is so easy to use, I often see people write > unorganized code > and still work with xcode. > So I generaly only port them when the effort is less than writing > one from scratch, > which actually happens more than you think.
Yeah -- I figured that was the case. This was more of a "here might be some apps you may not have seen, and if any look interesting, let's look into them for porting" situation. You never know :) J. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
