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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X: Good News/Bad News
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Yeah! Glad to hear it. Looking forward to more improvements in the OS X
port. I now use this as my primary dev machine so the better my tools the
easier it is for me to work ;-).
-warner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Veronika Irvine" <Veronika_Irvine@xxxxxxx>
To: <eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X: Good News/Bad News
> As many of you know, the Mac OS X version of Eclipse stopped being posted
> Oct 12. This was so that we could make massive changes without impacting
> our users. These changes include improved clipping/z-order, Core
> Graphics,
> more native widgets like Table and Tree, and general
> robustness/completeness
> improvements. Our goal was to have the Mac OS X builds back on line by
> M3.
> We failed. However, we realise that users are keen to get the latest
> updates from Eclipse and the SWT component is only one part of that.
> Therefore, we have reverted the Mac OS X SWT component to its M1 state +
> patches and made this available for download (and in HEAD) along with the
> latest Eclipse components.
>
> Sorry to disappoint those who were looking for huge improvements in SWT.
> We
> are proceeding full tilt with our work in a side stream (probably what we
> should have done from the beginning) and we will release the new code as
> soon as it is ready (really!). Rest assured the Mac OS X port is still
> one
> of the most important items for Eclipse.
>
> SWT Team
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