[boost] Re: GUI/GDI template library

From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-09 00:48:17

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 2:25 PM, David B. Held wrote:

> "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:4.3.2.7.2.20030808083928.025bf070_at_mailhost.esva.net...
>> At 07:30 PM 8/6/2003, Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> [...]
>>> And don't forget the Mac ;-)
>>
>> [...]
>> I know that Windows and X  Window are major API's that follow very 
>> different flow-of-control models.  Is the Mac sufficiently different 
>> to be an important proof-of-concept case?  Are there others?
>
> I think Joel was mostly tongue-in-cheek there.  When talking about the 
> Mac, you have OS X and pre-OS X.  Personally, I think supporting 
> pre-OS X is about important as supporting VC6 for the next ten 
> years...doable, but maybe not the best investment of time and 
> resources.  Pre-OS X can barely be considered modern operating 
> systems, which is why OS X has the mach kernel.  Since OS X uses X for 
> the GUI, I think it's covered by "Windows and X".

Yikes!!  The "X" in "Mac OS X" has NOTHING to do with X-Windows!  (The 
Mac's "X" is for the Roman numeral for "ten".)  Macs use an independent 
GUI API.  But, like Windows, there are programs that allow X-Windows 
programs to work on Macs.

Daryle