Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X: Good News/Bad News

[Craig Pugsley <craigpugsley@xxxxxxx>]

I'd have to second that. Apart from the silly problem I've been 
experiencing with my mouse driver interfering with Eclipse, it is a 
stable and definitely developer-class port. I use it every day.

Although it would be nice to be dressed up and looking as polished as 
the Windows build (for example), I would rather the wonderful people 
doing the OS X port got it right and took a little longer.

I can't express how happy I am to see software of this calibre on the 
Mac platform, well done all!!

Cheers

CraigP

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 04:26  pm, Warner Onstine wrote:

> 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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