Re: [Freevo-devel] SoC: Porting to Mac OS X

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Ford
Evan Hisey wrote: > Marcus- >While it is a nice idea, it is not really a feasible for the same > reasons a Windows port is not. Freevo use some very Linux idioms. It > might be possible to get a fink-ified version of freevo running on a > Mac, but do not believe that a full port would really be

Re: [Freevo-devel] SoC: Porting to Mac OS X

2007-03-19 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote: > A windows port is much more complicated, MacOS X is a Posix system, > just like Linux. So most of the windows problems do not apply here. I agree that an OS X port would be a lot more straightforward than Windows, but I don't think it is the best use of a SoC applicant. --

Re: [Freevo-devel] SoC: Porting to Mac OS X

2007-03-19 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Evan Hisey" wrote: > Marcus- >While it is a nice idea, it is not really a feasible for the same > reasons a Windows port is not. Freevo use some very Linux idioms. A windows port is much more complicated, MacOS X is a Posix system, just like Linux. So most of the windows problems do not appl

Re: [Freevo-devel] SoC: Porting to Mac OS X

2007-03-18 Thread Evan Hisey
Marcus- While it is a nice idea, it is not really a feasible for the same reasons a Windows port is not. Freevo use some very Linux idioms. It might be possible to get a fink-ified version of freevo running on a Mac, but do not believe that a full port would really be worth the effort. Just a fe

[Freevo-devel] SoC: Porting to Mac OS X

2007-03-18 Thread Marcus Schröder
Hi, seeing that freevo got accepted for SoC, a project that I would be interested in doing would be creating a "true" version for Mac OS X, i.e. an .app-bundle that contains all libraries and support files, so that users can do a drag & drop installation. An nice extension of this would be the in