>It seems the heavy lifting Jonathan referred to just got heavier. >It looks like Apple has made moves today that would make porting Jmol to the >iphone via cross-compiling not a viable avenue? They altered the SDK license >and several people have taken this to mean cross-compiling would be out. >
More on this theme http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/ where Steve Jobs is quoted as "We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.". The layer is of course Java, with the implication that merely porting it will produce a sub-standard product. I know there are some readers of Jmol developers who are also bona-fide Apple developers. Perhaps, if they have the opportunity, they might discuss this issue with Apple directly to see if any progress can be made? By the way, I notice that the app "Molecules" is now available in an iPad version (and it seems that it owes its origins to Rasmol). -- +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); Blog: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/rzepa/blog/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
