There is divergent work being done that should dovetail into a true Mono for OS X in the near future. When I started, a Linux/PPC interpreter was completed, and I have heard that they are now working on a Linux/PPC JIT. Unfortunately, the trampolines (for native calls) are different on the Mac, and I decided to take a look at that. I'm moving pretty slowly, though, because I just quit my job and I've been enjoying other things in life instead of programming too much. So I can't give you an ETA. Hopefully it will be soon.
Once the runtime is working on OS X, it will take some time for mono to become an attractive environment here. There will likely be people working on a Windows Forms clone for Mono and I'd like to work on Cocoa integration.
Right now is there a good reason why you're not using Java? It's probably the best choice for platform-agnosticism in the near future.
John
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 09:30 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:
I am very curious to find out when and if you are truly porting Mono to Mac OS X.�I am the Director of Information Systems at a small company called Decipher�a game company built on Macs�
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However, our backend for now is Windows and we have been using .NET (C#) since it was in beta.�All of our developers are very impressed with the technology and we are waiting with drooling tongues on a Mac OS X release of Mono.
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Any ideas or insights would be helpful for me as I am doing a fact finding study for my CEO.
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Thanks,
Chris Holmes
Director of Information Systems
757.664.1109
