Overview

The goal of this project is to provide Vision with a cocoa backend to make it truly native on the mac. For more information please refer to the discussion page. See also OSX_release_infrastructure.

Milestones

M1: April 25th

• get EiffelStudio 5.7 compiled under OS X

M2: May 2nd

• Get a Vision window displayed with a Cocoa window (involves eventloop porting)

M3: May

• To be completed by the team

Current Status

6.04: We now have a graphical version of ES 5.7 running on OS X (both ppc and intel). The problem was with the fontconfig libraray: The 2.3.2 version seems to crash where the 2.2.3 works fine. There are still a few problems with fonts sizes though... From what Jann tells me self compilation is also no problem anymore so we can really start hacking the beast now.

30.4: We have EiffelStudio compiled for ppc and running on ppc and intel macs. The Gtk+ GUI works more or less but some things (like wizards) are missing atm. It required a lot of hacking and we're now trying to get newer builds, and streamline the process for getting a build on the mac. I think the next goal should be to get a self-compiling version of ec so that we can skip building the f_code on linux and then adopt the build-script.

Team

Everyone intrested in this project is welcome to join our mailinglist es-mac@origo.ethz.ch

• Upeter (Project leader)
• Maeli
• Dfurrer
• Bayt
• nih
• Jann