Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
- Subject: Re: It is time for me to take a decision.
- From: Annard Brouwer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:42:17 -0700
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 10:40 , Bertrand Mansion wrote:
I am wondering if Cocoa is portable to Microsoft Windows ?
Somewhere I found information about Yellow Box which was part of
WebObjects
and Rhapsody but it seems to be discountinued. How difficult is it now
to
port Cocoa apps to Windows ? Do you think there are plans to make an
API for
Windows ?
We have looked into this recently and came to the conclusion that it is
not worth the effort. Your are stuck on Mac OS X if you do Cocoa
development.
GNUStep on Windows is a pipe dream until a lot of people are going to
put a significant amount of effort into it. We had troubles getting
GNU's libFoundation to work on Windows since Cygnus seems to have pulled
Objective-C support.
I have seen that TrollTech made a beta version of Qt available
yesterday on
their site.
I don't know about the quality of this API but if you really want to
have one codebase it's the only way to go. The other alternative is
Java/Swing.
As a small shop it might be feasable to use Cocoa but if you want to
expand your market I would not use it. And that is unfortunate because
it's the only environment where you can still have "fun" while writing
software. Apple should support this on Windows if they want to make it
big. I guess they are only using it because it gives them a distinct
competetive advantage when developing all these digital hub applications
we're supposed to see soon...
Annard
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Annard Brouwer
Senior Software Architect
ObjectWarehouse Inc.