Am 11.12.2008 um 21:59 schrieb DM Smith: > Manfred Bergmann wrote: >> Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: >> >> >>>> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs >>>> should >>>> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I >>>> think >>>> is best. But if the Java apps do go under all the other groups, >>>> they >>>> should not have higher visibility than apps directly written for >>>> the >>>> platform-- like MacSword. >>>> >>> Once GS, BPBible and BT are on Linux, MacOs and Windows, they will >>> also >>> go into all kinds of sections. So that is not a Java thing. >>> >> >> This might be nitpicking but even though Java, QT, GTK, wxWindows and >> TclTk may work without X on Mac, they are not considered "native" >> concerning applications with GUI. Only Cocoa is. Carbon is dying, >> too. > > Maybe I wrong, but I thought that Java was one of the core > frameworks on > the Mac. If I remember correctly, earlier Apple stated that they were > going to make Java into one of the ways of doing Cocoa programming. > Though with the last 2 releases of the OS they seem to be drifting > away > from that.
Unfortunately that's right. Until Mac OSX 10.3 Java was the second language for the Cocoa framework. Since then the Java Cocoa bridge hasn't been maintained. Manfred _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
