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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?

I would say such an application is ported, but not that it's a first-class citizen from a cultural and business perspective.

If you're building a commercial application, unless it's for a vertical market where you already know users are comfortable with such things, using either Carbon, Cocoa, or Java is (in my opinion) a must for your interface.

That said, a well-factored application shouldn't be extremely difficult to put a Cocoa interface on. It might take some time, but Cocoa does cut down on that quite a bit.

  -- Chris

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