[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Mac OS X?

["Channing Walton" <channing.walton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you think that an OSX port will have to wait until Eclipse is fully open
source?

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Channing Walton
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"Andre Weinand" <weinand@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 9.10.2001 22:38 Uhr, in article 3BC36033.ABD21A5A@xxxxxxx, "Randy
Faust"
> <faust@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't think Swing on Mac OS X would be the way to go. A port of SWT to
Aqua
> > Cocoa or perhaps even to QT might be a realistic possibility for running
> > Eclipse. Has anybody had experience with QT on OS X?
>
> I saw QT beta2 for MacOS X and I must admit: I'm impressed!
> It is much faster than Swing applications on MacOS X (and Swing is not
slow
> on MacOS X because it uses the native Appearance Manager to draw the Aqua
> L&F).
> However the QT demos are not Java applications, so I don't know how well
QT
> would perform under Java. On the other hand: a QT based implementation of
> SWT would automatically run on other systems (e.g. Linux) too.
>
> --andre
>