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Marcel Weiher marcel at metaobject.com
Wed Mar 5 08:53:47 UTC 2003


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 03:37  Uhr, Ian Piumarta wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Daniel Joyce wrote:
>> 6 months to port to MacOSx? Yeouch. So much for leveraging Unix... >.<
>
> To be fair to OS X I think I should point out that absolutely 
> everything
> in the Unix VM other than the window and sound code compiled out of the
> box with no modifications whatsoever.

Yup, and a long time ago, too...

> The 5 months is due entirely to my limitations and comes from having to
> learn from scratch how to write a MacOS X GUI application,  ...

Of course, you could have just used one that already exists, and took a 
fraction of the time to write because, oh well, it uses 
InterfaceBuilder and AppKit etc.

Marcel

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