Miguel de Icaza Interview
There's a pretty nifty interview with Miguel de Icaza over at OSNews that's worth a read, if your brain goes that way. It mostly focuses on Mono, software patents and Linux adoption.
But several have mailed be about this blurb on the second page (which is cool):
We asked whether a Mac OS X native version of GTK# or Cocoa# is planned, but the answer was negative. Ximian is not working on OSX native toolkit bindings (and he doesn't think that Apple is working on something like it either)... Miguel told us that Quark is using Mono for their next major Quark Xpress release! Apparently Quark is working on Obj-C bindings for Mono.However, the graphical toolkit bindings will be minimal (an update on this here), so he hopes that Mac enthusiasts will jump in to complete a full Cocoa# solution, or natively port GTK+ 2.x...
...which has apparently sparked some deja vu. Things are getting really, really interesting on the desktop side of things, really quickly.
You get the sense of a buildup waiting for a catalyst, but no one is quite sure where that's going to come from, where Apples strategy is going to fit in the whole deal, or if its going to get squeezed out.
Posted by drunkenbatmanMay 10, 2004, at 05:32 PM
Comments (4)
Posted by: Mindflayer at May 11, 2004 12:54 PM
Gtk for Mac OS X - there are some projects in place.
Posted by: Edmund at May 12, 2004 05:31 PM
Quark XPress using Mono means one thing:
There will be no more native Mac version. Just a Windows version written in dotnet. The Mac version will be a piss-poor back port using Mono.
Posted by: M at May 21, 2004 02:39 PM
"Does this means 3rd party developers are starting an end run around Apples tools? I guess I'm not sure of the signifigance..."
I certainly hope so*. But this doesn't sound like the way I'd like.
*Because, a freakin windows-style GUI (gooey might be more appropriate.) on UNIX's crufty old bones is NOT my idea of a modern successor to MacOS.
Does this means 3rd party developers are starting an end run around Apples tools? I guess I'm not sure of the signifigance...