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Re: NeXTstep -- err, Mac OS X.

But converting to Objective C is simply "out of the question".

"Merely" Carbonizing the app is driving me crazy. The Carbonizing step has become a career in itself (GRIN). Perhaps some day I will actually get to write new features, rather than just making the old features work in OSX.

Yeah, I never tried porting a serious application to OS X; but from what I understand, it's really not as easy to do as Apple would like you to think. Look at what M$ did with Office - they decided to start all over again with Carbon from scratch. I think all developers will end up doing this at some point.

There wouldn't be sufficient resources to maintain parallel PC and Mac versions in different languages. Might as well put a gun to our heads, go fully self-destructive, code MS C# on PC, Obj C on Mac (GRIN).

LOL. Why not just use C/C++ for the cross-platform stuff? I'm working on an open-source project, and we are sharing a LOT of source code across 3 different platforms (Mac OS X, Windoze, and soon Linux/BSD). The shared code is all written in C++/STL/OpenGL (it's a 3D chess game). We are using Cocoa for the Mac OS X GUI, the Win32 API for Windoze, and probably gtkmm for Linux. It's really not that bad. Works rather well, actually.

Robert
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