Re: Which Linux for Mac works best with Swarm?

[Marc-Antoine Parent]

> JM> Swarm depends on this packages, and there is nothing to do until
> JM> these packages are ported.
>
> JM> be patient
>
> Don't be patient.  It isn't necessary to have the Tcl/Tk stuff ported
> to Aqua.  Just grab the X server and work as if in a more conventional
> Unix environment.  Once people know that the whole thing works at some
> level then there will be stronger motivation to polish the GUI
> libraries (Tk & BLT).  GCC works now, and that was the hard problem.

I am tempted to support that statement: Aqua/Tk can wait. I can help on 
Aqua/Tk, actually, but I won't start doing so until I have a basic 
starting point, i.e. a compilable swarm. As I said, gcc3.1 mostly 
compiles; Tk, HDF5 and various other key libraries are in fink; we're 
not far from a compilable swarm on Mac OS X! (Notice I did not say 
running.)
I won't attempt that myself, because snags at this point are likely to 
be highly swarm-specific, and I do not know swarm enough to solve them 
efficiently. Though if you have a macOSX side question, throw it my way 
and I can try to find an answer. (I'm not an expert there either, but I 
do have some clues by now.)
Such a bootstrap effort would do a lot to draw the energies to refine 
the system.

My 2 cents.

Marc-Antoine


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