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Re: climate for X Windows apps

At 1:34 PM -0600 3/15/02, Elwood C. Downey wrote: 


But if the answer is (2) and folks feel fine saying such-and-such app is all
ported and ready to go, is the app then really considered a first class
citizen on OS X from cultural and business points of view?


Getting an X11 app up on OSX is, generally, not that hard. (with some exceptions of course) Porting these huge X11 apps to carbon/cocoa is not really a consideration, it would involve a LOT of work. You might as well just write the app from scratch.

So for "UNIX Ports", i would say command-line or X11 would be considered "complete" UNIX ports. If you can wrap it in Cocoa, even better. Depends on your user base.

If you look on some of apple's PR pages that tout OSX's ability in running research apps, like Genetech/BLAST for example - they are command line apps.
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/acgresearch.html

-Ben


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