Re: [platform-swt-dev] Adding Motif for Mac OS X to CVS

["Mike Wilson" <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx>]

Ok. I (literally) don't have time to do anything about this right now, but I don't want to lose the discussion. Can you enter a bugzilla report with the email trail in it and I'll make sure we revisit it after R2.0 ships?

Thanks,
McQ.

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Mike Wilson wrote:
> It's a more subtle question than it might seem. There are several ways 
> the scripts could go in.
 > ...

There are only two changes:

1) Adding the "uname == darwin -> macosx platform" code to build.csh 
scripts.  This is the same regardless of GUI, so will be needed for the 
Carbon port too.

2) Adding make_macosx.mak files.  Since Mac OS X/Darwin supports both of 
Eclipse's primary GUIs (Motif and Gtk2), I don't see why these should 
not be included (I haven't done a Gtk2 version yet, but will later).

I don't mind being the Mac OS X/Darwin X11 maintainer, but that was not 
my intent.  Like most Mac OS X users, I'm primarily interested in 
applications that use the Aqua GUI (although that is why Gtk2 will be 
interesting to some because it should be quite Aqua-like with the Aqua 
theme).

I can provide patches or whatever other additional files are needed for 
putting this into CVS.  I made a point of bringing this up now so that 
it can get done along with the rest of the Mac OS X CVS activity.  I saw 
Andre's post about going on vacation, so if that work is on hold until 
he gets back, then I understand that.

The problem of binaries certainly is going to become a big issue for 
Eclipse because as SWT applications proliferate, the application 
developers are going to want what application users expect, which is a 
simple and easy-to-use platform installer to "SWT-enable" their systems. 
  I can envision a suitably cool WebStart solution, as well as 
platform-specific install applications, but that's is far beyond the 
scope of the current concern.

But specifically with regard to Mac OS X and the Eclipse IDE, once Mac 
OS X is added to the binary build for Carbon, the same machine/process 
could automatically do the Motif and Gtk2 builds too.  Even though there 
are other avenues for Mac OS X binary distribution (notably fink), I 
would imagine that Eclipse.org would want to control their own destiny 
in that regard (especially because the end-user stuff for SWT comes into 
play, more so than just the IDE).

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

> Finally, I'm not sure if the Darwin license is compatible with CPL...

The Darwin license is the "Apple Public Source License", which is OSI 
approved.  Naturally I have no idea how it relates to CPL (APSL seems 
BSD-like to me, which isn't surprising).  But as you say, that isn't 
particularly relevant since the build changes are strictly Eclipse CPL code.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apsl.php

jim

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