> I guess neither Eric or Chris get a 64-bit mac for testing so that there was 
> no J64.

Is this something I could help with?

I've only had my new Mac a year, Before that I was a M$ corporate
hack. But the Mac has since totally displaced Windows for me, with a
consequent saving of half my time and effort, to divert into creative
stuff.

I'd like to "get under the skin" of my Mac. "Back" under the skin,
because I was an Apple developer in 1989, in a university environment.
But without the incentive to do so the priority sinks.

I feel the Mac is a platform J should not give up on.
It should be the bellwether of the Linux world, not bringing up the
rear. Linux is still home-brew and ever will be, whereas Mac
recognises the importance of quality & reliability.
Neither Dyalog nor APL+ offer Mac versions, and if J's offering
degenerates then this leaves a gap in array languages for a platform
which has traditionally served innovative people, not corporate
me-toos.
Software originated on the Mac (eg Word, Excel) today dominates the
personal computer industry, and IMO forever will.
Mac users are people who have personal discretion over the languages
they use, and are amenable to being "converted" to J, whereas Windows
users mostly aren't.

Anyone disagree? Is it worth debating, on Chat?

Ian


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:18 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ian,
> thank you for filenames and trying. if getting gtk binary is difficult in
> mac then Jsoftware may provide an all-in-one jgtk installer for Mac.
>
> I guess neither Eric or Chris get a 64-bit mac for testing so that there
> was no J64 for mac.
>
> Срд, 10 Ноя 2010, Ian Clark писал(а):
>> > What are the file names for libcairo and libpangocairo ?
>>
>> Glade.app contains files called:
>> libcairo.2.dylib
>> libpangocairo-1.0.0.dylib

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