winequartz.drv Mac OS X UI discontinued?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 16:30:50 CDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:21 PM, James
McKenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>> I really don't understand why Obj-C is treated as evil, even it would
>> be part only of Mac platform of Wine and even it is supported by GDB
>> and GCC on any possible platform :/
> Need to convince AJ of that.  It would be nice to be able to do Mac
> builds on Linux and vice versa.  I don't like the problems that are
> encountered using mingw32 for the testsuite when building it on Linux.

What problems are you referencing?

>> Once I thought when moving to Mac that its doggy idea to force some
>> Obj-C on Mac, while other part of the World speak C/C++, but now I
>> know that Obj-C is what defined OSX actually and way the whole system
>> works. So wondering who of Obj-C dislikers at Wine HQ really uses Mac
>> and really did any of native apps on Mac.
>>
> Don't know.  I know that Austin English does use a Mac.  I don't know if
> he builds programs on it, however.  I would like to see at least one
> FOSS project use Obj-C code to support the Mac rather than using c wrappers.

No, I don't have one. I have ssh access to one, but that's it. I'd
like to see more testing done on the Mac, but until I get one
personally, that won't happen for a while.

-- 
-Austin



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