Re: [Octal-dev] porting thoughts

[Ian McKellar]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:08:57PM -0400, Dave O'Toole wrote:
> This isn't a primary goal, but I think it would be very nice to have
> ports of OCTAL to other operating systems. This is a few months away
> (GUI work is starting probably tomorrow) but I think it would be good to
> discuss it now. 
> 
> I see several scenarios for world domination. 
> 
> 1. Since GTK+ is working on windows and beos, OCTAL can be ported to
> both. (Someone already did a quickie port of an older version to Win32,
> but as there is no GUI or threading code yet anyway, this was probably
> deceptively easy.) 

Threading should be trivial if you're using the GThread abstraction layer
in GLib - it has been ported (AFAIK) to both BeOS and Windows.
> 
> But I'm not sure just how well GTK+ is working on other operating
> systems. I know at least some of it is working; i have seen screenshots
> of the Gimp running in Win32. Does anyone have experience doing this?
> What's working, and what's not? How's the stability?  

Gimp/win32 is pretty cool.
> 
> 2. The GUI is rewritten for those other operating systems. This sounds
> like a big time-waster if there are ways to port instead, but if people
> who are expert in programming those GUI's can help out this would go
> much more quickly. 

I think its a big time waster. If someone feel motivated they would be
better off porting GTK to other OSs.

Ian

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