Hello,
egger@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> On 23 Jul, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>
> > Will it be free? Will it be a standard part of MacOS?
> > (Or is it something Mac users will have to pay for?)
>
> Sorry, I have got no details handy. Read about it on slashdot or
> somewhere. Have a look at the usual MAC places to get info about that...
OK, I'll do that (eventually). But my point is, if X Windows isn't
available on every Mac system... or at least if they can't get it
for free... then it is worth porting the GIMP (and GTK+, GDK, etc) to the
native MacOS API.
After all, if (almost) nobody has X Windows on the Mac (because you
have to pay for it), then nobody will be using a GIMP (that needs
X Windows on the Mac to run).
It was the same with the (MS) Windows version of the GIMP. Sure, you could
tell people to go buy X Windows for (MS) Windows. But who was going to
do that. That's why the GIMP (and GTK+, GDK, etc) got ported over to
the native (MS) Windows' API. (There was actually an X Windows version of the
GIMP for Windows around before, but how many people could use it?)
See ya
Charles Iliya Krempeaux
