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

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

On Mar 18, 2005, at 15:47, Arthur Wiebe wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:25:08 -0500, Bob Ippolito <bo...@re...> 
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Hey Bob, I was more into porting current applications using GTK to OS
> X. Unless there were some really good advantages, I wouldn't write a
> new app using GTK or pyGTK unless there were some big advantages. But
> it's easier to port GTK to OS X than port each individual GTK app to a
> different toolkit.

Well, you said "write better applications", not "port existing 
applications"  :)

> And I have tried PyObjC but use wxPython instead because it's cross
> platform while PyObjC is OS X only.

Well, I'm biased, I'm a developer on the PyObjC project.  I do use 
wxPython when I do need to target other platforms with a single code 
base.

-bob