Re: MacOSX Swarm avalable for the very brave

[Bill Northcott]

My objective for the MacOS X port is that you should eventually be able to 
to use all the Cocoa Objective-C or Java stuff to wrap it, in the same way 
as Java can be used on other platforms.  The display will remain X11 based 
as it is for Matlab and other commercial products.  Apple seems to be 
committed to integrating X11 wth Aqua.  It makes no sense for us to waste 
time on that.

The current state of the port is only a half way stage.  We had to get the 
basic Swarm code to run before we can graft on the other stuff.  Currently 
the build process is tricky.  The next stage will be to simplify that to 
enable Swarm apps to be written, built and debugged with Project builder 
and friends.
Finally we build the bridges to Cocoa.  How we do this is still under 
discussion.

Check out the MacOS X Port tasks on Savannah for the ongoing state of 
play.  They were updated yesterday.

Bill Northcott

> I've been following this thread with considerable interest, even though
> I don't understand most of the details.

> Am I correct in thinking that, because of the differences between the
> libobjc used by Swarm and the libobjc used by Cocoa, even once the
> basic bugs of running Swarm under OS X are ironed out, it will be
> problematic to use Interface Builder to design a GUI that interacts
> with a Swarm model?



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