From bb6dd987eee2cc52bdbb50d540a9b463c747d367 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Tatham Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:46:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite the FAQ entry about the MacOS port. --- doc/faq.but | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index e2e23742..6227a809 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -306,18 +306,22 @@ testing in this area would be very welcome! \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the \I{Mac OS}Mac? -There are several answers to this question: +We hope so! -\b The Unix/Gtk port is already fully working under Mac OS X as an X11 -application. +We attempted one around 2005, written as a native Cocoa application, +but it turned out to be very slow to redraw its window for some reason +we never got to the bottom of. -\b A native (Cocoa) Mac OS X port has been started. It's just about -usable, but is of nowhere near release quality yet, and is likely to -behave in unexpected ways. Currently it's unlikely to be completed -unless someone steps in to help. +In 2015, after porting the GTK front end to work with GTK 3, we began +another attempt based on making small changes to the GTK code and +building it against the OS X Quartz version of GTK 3. This doesn't +seem to have the window redrawing problem any more, so it's already +got further than the last effort, but it is still substantially +unfinished. -\b A separate port to the classic Mac OS (pre-OSX) is also in -progress; it too is not ready yet. +If any OS X and/or GTK programming experts are keen to have a finished +version of this, we urge them to help out with some of the remaining +problems! \S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC?