Hi Peter, We may be able to replace Eiffel Vision with something else, but that is the next step of experiments, and will take a long discussion before we get started with it. Thanks for the explanation!
Cheers Seref On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Peter Gummer <peter.gummer at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > Seref Arikan wrote: > >> Thanks for all the hard work. I'll give it a spin under Linux and >> let you know how it goes. >> If I had a Mac (cough), I'd do the same for the sugar coated BSD ;) > > There is not much sugar on the Mac build unfortunately, Seref, because > it doesn't use Cocoa. The Mac build runs under X11 (i.e., X-Windows) > and uses GTK, similar to the Linux build. I've built it many times on > Linux and the Mac and it runs just as well as on Windows. > > Apart from the fact that it looks pretty ugly under GTK on the Mac, it > is very hard for users to install because they need to install X11 and > MacPorts first, and then wait ages for various packages to build. > Linux users might say, "So what, that's normal", but it's completely > abnormal for Mac and Windows users. Then, having built the packages, > it may not run due to the packages they installed being incompatible > with the ones that I had on my machine when I built it. DLL hell. > > The best solution to this would be to forget X11 on the Mac and build > it for Cocoa instead. I did do a Cocoa build of it a few weeks ago -- > the first time I had ever tried to do that -- and it does compile and > run natively on the Mac. Unfortunately, however, it didn't work well. > The EiffelVision GUI framework has been ported to Cocoa, but not > completely. The docking in particular was very bad. It was bad enough > that it's currently unusable, I'm afraid. X11 is still the only option > on the Mac. > > - Peter > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical >
