Re: Native port of Gnumeric for Mac OS X

[M-Rick <macfreesoft free fr>]

Jody Goldberg a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:21PM +0200, M-Rick wrote:
>
> > Can we expect to have a native port of Gnumeric like it has been done
> > for Abiword ?
> >
> > The native port of Abiword works perfectly in Mac OS X and it is
> > perfectly integrated, and it starts really really faster than NeoOffice
> > (Mac OS X native port of OpenOffice.org).
> > So would it be possible to do the same for Gnumeric ? Like this we would
> > have a very good, real and free alternative to MS Excel.
>
>
> Although it would be possible to do a non-gtk version of gnumeric,
> it would be a huge amount of work.  A OSX port of Gtk would be much
> more useful than porting just Gnumeric.

http://gimpfoo.de/2005/10/06/an-early-glance-at-gimp-on-os-x/

> An early Glance at GIMP on OS X
>
> I’m very excited today :-) My co-worker Anders Carlsson has spent the last two months with starting a port 
> of GTK+ to the Mac OS X Cocoa framework, so GTK+ applications will eventually run natively (without needing 
> X11) on that platform.
>
> The port is still in its early stages and incomplete, but after these few weeks it’s already complete 
> enough to give compiling GIMP a try.