Re: Amaya for Macintosh

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