Re: [gtk+osx] About GTK-OSX Status

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Mar 18, 2005, at 15:18, Arthur Wiebe wrote:

> That's sort of what I expected. What we need is someone who has good
> leading skills to get a group of developers together and get an OS X
> port in little time.
> GTK+ is getting to be more popular all the time, and for good reason.
> I'm sure there are more people who would rather not run X11 under Mac
> OS X all the time.
>
> Cairo is getting to be pretty good. It is now used my Mozilla for
> cross platform SVG rendering and works just fine on my Mac.
>
> (Me thinks to myself it's time to learn some C, and friends so I can 
> help)
> I only know Python and PHP. GTK+ on OS X would let me write better GUI
> applications through PHP-GTK and pyGTK.

There are plenty of better alternatives for GUI development on OS X.  
PyObjC, wxPython, etc.  For new code, it doesn't really make sense to 
go through all the trouble of trying to make GTK do something that it 
doesn't.

-bob