On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Reilly <andrew-sch...@areilly.bpc-users.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:23:35AM -0700, John Clements wrote: >> FWIW, it looks to me like Apple has decided to leverage the switch to >> 64 bit to force all GUI developers to start using their Objective C >> bindings. If I understand correctly, this means that moving DrScheme >> to 64-bit will involve many painful changes. > > Presumably this is pain that many other folk (for example the > wxWidgets up-stream developers) are also experiencing, so > eventually there should be some appropriate lore and pattern > to lean on. I notice on the wxWidgets site that there is a > wxOSX/Cocoa that runs in 32 and 64-bit modes at an "alpha" > stage. I understand that Matthew wants to move away from using > wxWidgets, though.
More accurately we moved away more like 15 years ago (maybe 12?) and haven't looked back. This is a bit of an old topic, tho (why wxWindows' more recent improvements aren't easily helpful to us). Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev