----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Natterer <mitschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Jason T. Slack <jslack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Gimp to MacOS > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jason T. Slack wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I am interested in doing a port of GTK+ and GIMP to MacOS. > > > > Has anybody started this? > > > > Should I go full speed ahead? > > Hi, > > I guess that Gtk+ and Gimp will run more or less automatically > on MacOS X' BSD API once there is an X server, so there should > be no need to "port" it. > > If you mean to port it to MacOS X' native windowing system, then > it sould be mostly a matter of porting Gtk+. You should ask on > the Gtk+ developer list if there are alrady efforts to port > the upcoming version 2.0 to MacOS X. > > Porting them to the classic or carbon APIs may be not really > fun because they lack stuff like processes and pipes. > Hi ! I have ported a big part of gtk+ to MacOS 9, it's on mac-gtk at SourceForge. IT'S ALIVE ! ;-) The GDK port is based on QuickDraw+WindowMgr, and Justin Armstrong has made changes for carbon support. Of course, on MacOS X, he uses a standard unix glib (I must use the GUSI posix emulation on the classic MacOS which is not easy for the process stuff). AND... I have a minimal version of Gimp running on MacOS 9 ! There are still a lot of bugs but at least I can paint some flowers with the brush tool... Currently I don't have much time for GTK because I am on holidays (far away from my G4) so you should contact Justin for the MacOS X port. Arnaud
