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Re: The future of SWT on OS X



On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

On 1/6/06, Erik Mattheis <email@hidden> wrote:
In light of next week's rumored arrival of Intel Macs, I'm wondering
about about the future of SWT on the Mac. As I understand it, SWT
uses a lot of JNI and the  Carbon framework. Everything I've heard
about porting to Intel says Cocoa is a must.

Cocoa has a little better level of abstraction and a history of being available on several different CPU / OS platforms but Carbon based applications can still be made universal. Carbon isn't going away in an fashion with Macintels.

You may want to review...

<http://developer.apple.com/transition/projectscope.html>

...and the other docs found on...

<http://developer.apple.com/transition/index.html?ht>

Yes, I've skimmed through those previously.

Does this mean SWT will be using emulated code behind the scenes on Intel Macs?

It depends on if the native code libraries are compiled universal or not.


Will it even run?

Again depends on how it is compiled, review...

<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1295.html>

I guess my question really belongs on a SWT mailing list ;) I was hoping maybe some Mac SWT developers might lurk here.


I don't use SWT in my own projects, but I do use Eclipse as my IDE of choice. Any thoughts?

Don't panic and keep you towel close at hand.

I'm not worried at all, just curious. In fact, my towel is currently wrapped tight over my head. I'm dealing with a particularly ravenous bugblatter beast at the moment...


- Erik
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