- From: <jose.kahan@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:21:35 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- CC: www-amaya@w3.org
Hello Bruce, In our previous episode, Bruce Bailey said: > > 1) Will Amaya be available for the Apple Macintosh PPC? The answer is the same as before. We don't have enough manpower in the Amaya team to start porting Amaya to a new platform. If this happens, it must take place as an external contribution. Of course, we can share our expertise if someone is interested in this project. > 1a) Has anyone tried the Unix version of Amaya on an OS X system? (FYI, OS > X is Apple's (latest and actually shipping) next generation operating > system. It has an Unix kernel.) If it supports gcc, X11, and the auto tools family, it'd be possible to compile it. There's an Amaya version for Linux/PPC out there. > 1b) I know just enough C (but precious little C++) to be dangerously naive, > but couldn't the source code be recompiled for the Mac using Metrowerks (or > whatever) relatively easily? I am sure that this is a non-trivial > endeavor -- with source code in excess of 4 MB (compressed)! Still, one of > the main features of C is its portability... Same answer as above :) > 2) Speaking of portability, why isn't Amaya written with Java? Mostly because of problems of portability and performance. The language choice was made at the beginning of the project. -Jose
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