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

[Arthur W. <ar...@gm...>]

OK, so that explains it :)

Well to tell you the truth I would write GTK apps using PHP and Python
simply because I can. They probably wouldn't be better though but you
never know.

The major reason for a GTK+ OS X port like I said would be for
porting. I tried converting BitTorrent 4.0.0 which has switched to
pyGTK, to wxPython but decided in the end it was easier to write a new
GUI.
Such is life.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:58:45 -0500, Bob Ippolito <bo...@re...> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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