Hi,
Before I start raising any expectations I would like to say a few words
about the quite ambitious plan of doing a native Mac port that neither
uses X11 nor Java.
As a professional VCL developer and private Mac fan I watched the
porting activities of OOo regarding Mac from its beginning. From that
perspective it is very clear that a VCL port to Cocoa or Carbon is a
huge task that cannot be done in your spare time but requires many
months (at least 6 to 9) of full time(!) engagement, assuming you have a
good knowledge of VCL in general and the platform dependent part in
detail. Even then you will most likely have nothing that is production
ready but something that still requires a lot of bug fixing in areas
like font support, multi threading, asian key input, window management.
To give you a feeling of what to expect have a look at what Dan Williams
has to say in this thread:
http://gsl.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=1581
Once this is finished, the application will of course not look like a
native application but like OOo on UNIX or Windows. NWF will bring you
blue buttons etc. but that's it.
On the other hand it opens up new ways of system integration that are
not possible with the X11 approach like native File and Print dialogs,
Drag&Drop, may be Scripting, etc. But all this can start only *after*
the VCL port is fully done...
Please consider this in any further announcements.
Anyway, as I already actively contributed to the Mac port which I'm
willing to continue, here is my profile:
1) for presentation, please use only project names, and role(s) you have
Stephan Schaefer, Sun microsystems, Hamburg, Germany
GSL project lead
IssueZilla/IRC name: ssa
2) for skills, thanks to describe as simply as possible
VCL (C/C++, Win32, some X11 and gtk), some AppleScript, some shell
programming, some Obj-C/Cocoa (planning to look at Carbon)
3) hardware : synthetic description of what you're able to use for help
iBook G3/700MHz/640MB/60GB :(
4) resources : synthetic description of what you're using and able to
provide as upload area (or other functionnality)
nothing, may be lack of time
5) other
My main contribution to the upcoming MacOSX/X11 version was the launch
application, some minor VCL hacks (keyboard, cleaning up AWT threading
patch) and a few add-ons to the packaging script.
My current plans (probably not for 2.0 anymore) are to integrate fondu
into the launcher and to allow language packs to be easily installed
into the application bundle. Direct support of native fonts would also
be interesting to avoid the initial conversion step - but this is a
long-term goal.
Regards
Stephan
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