On 2007-05-11 05:19:46 -0400, Randall Wood wrote:
On 11 May 2007, at 02:48, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Am I missing something here? Would not a port come from the linux side and thereby x11? I mean are ports basically unix? Yes, I know of the aqua branch of ports.
Mac OS X is basically unix. However, given all the minor differences between unix versions and linux versions, it is pretty much impossible to build a complex application that really does not care what variant of unix its running on. [...]
Does the X11 version run on Linux only? Or does it run on Solaris and FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD as well? In the latter case, isn't there a good chance to make it work on Mac OS X (Darwin) + X11 too without many changes? Or does Mac OS X have too many specificities not common to some other supported OS? Also, Firefox/Gecko uses GTK+ under X11. Hasn't most of the hard work been done by porting GTK+? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)