Re: [Texmacs-dev] Cocoa backend

[Martin Costabel]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
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> like : "implementing a lightweight X11 compatibility layer
> on top of Cocoa, in such a way that (ultimately), one can
> compile X11 code on the Mac without modification. 

Such a compatibility layer already exists. It comes with Mac OSX and it 
is called, well, "X11" :-) We have been compiling, after all, TeXmacs on 
the Mac without modification for years.

This discussion is *not* about porting TeXmacs to the Mac. This has been 
done a long time ago. It is about better integrating the result into the 
Mac GUI - using Mac widgets, allowing seamless cut-and-paste with other 
applications, creating an app bundle. Apart from the latter, which is 
rather trivial and can be done already with the current X11-based 
texmacs, this requires, as Massimiliano explains, rewriting substantial 
parts of TeXmacs. And there is no way around the fact that you need - 
even if you used a compromise such as Qt4 or gtk - for this task someone 
who knows intimately both TeXmacs and the Mac GUI.

--
Martin