| [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X Port |
I just want to add my vote for a Mac OS X port. With its BSD underpinnings and easy to use UI, I think that OS X has the potential to become very popular among developers and it deserves consideration as a supported Eclipse platform. OS X comes with a set of Java classes that wrapper their native Cocoa widgets. This URL has everything you need to know about Cocoa: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/CocoaTopics.html A couple of links off of that URL are to the docs for the Java classes: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Java/AppKitTOC.html http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Java/FoundationTOC.html I do not have the right background to assist much in the programmin effort, but I am certainly willing to help in testing. Every copy of OS X has Java 1.3 with Hotspot VM. If anyone knows of some good Mac development forums or mailing lists, please post them. I think we should go to those places to try to solicit some Mac programmers to come over to Eclipse and help out. Thanks Mark Phippard