On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:08 +0200, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2005 21:54, zee wrote: > > Does the switch from PPC to Intel cloud the scribus/Mac path? > > That pre-alpha aqua work seems cancelled out by the chip change..would > > you continue coding > > for a platform not long for this world?
Sure. Most of the porting work that needs doing is porting to MacOS/X, not PPC. It seems like there are some endian issues to be nailed too, but they're bugs and need to be fixed no matter what. Porting work done on MacOS X/PPC now means porting work saved for MacOS X/x86 later. > > Would the Mac version then become pretty much like any x86 version, > > with some mac-specific tweaks, then? Only in so far as it is now. Ideally, more MacOS/X integration would be done, but that isn't affected by the CPU arch, only how much time we have and how many people we have willing to help. > As our code doesn't change much at all but only benefits by the cross > platform > existence, this does not cloud the need for Scribus OSX version now, which we > have. Yep. In fact, the Intel side should even be slightly easier, as there won't be endian issues to worry about. -- Craig Ringer
