Steve,
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> I have just had a person asking to see if our software will run under Mac.
> He was using 'Yellow Dog Linux on Mac'. Using the Mac Linux may be a good
> way of porting to Mac initially. He is also going to try RedHat ix86 Linux
> with Connectix' Virtual PC on a Mac.
While this may work for this user, and is a good idea, there's no way we
could seriously claim that this would count as a Mac port. That isn't
to say we shouldn't do it, just not under that heading.
Yellow Dog Linux is (I've just discovered) a distribution of Linux for
Apple hardware, so it would require a dual-boot machine. People buy
Macs (by which I mean OS X) so they don't have to mess with nonsense
like that.
Two minor points, just while they occur to me. Going the route of finding
a Quartz port of AGI would probably be better than just using Apple's
X server, since presumably that would give the appropriate look, if not
entirely the look-and-feel. Also, on a Mac, just as on Windows, you'd
need to do some work with an appropriate installer, otherwise folk would
start off with a very bad feeling about the software. OS X installers
are basically a tarball (or rather, paxball) plus a few shell scripts,
but there's a quite detailed set of guidelines they obey, so setting
this up would require at least some extra effort.
See you,
Norman
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