[Gambas-user] A step forward in Gambas!

[John Spikowski]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 13:39 +0200, François Gallo wrote:
> Hello the english community of Gambas,
> 
> 
> I ported the Gambas 3 project to Mac OS X 10.6.
> it works perfectly and all its components. 
> 
> Currently, there is only one component that makes problem, it's gb.sdl. 
> This is a detail that i will fix soon with Laurent Carlier (gb.sdl's author). 
> 
> Of course, you won't get the gb.v4l component which is exclusively reserved
> for the GNU/Linux operating system and very linked to its kernel. 
> 
> If you use an earlier version (10.5), I can't confirm that the compilation procedure will go fine. 
> However, Mac OS X 10.7 upcoming and i'll ensure the availability of Gambas on this new
> version. 
> 
> 
> Why is this port ?
> 
> Just because my goals are to work on the portability of Gambas. 
> Thus making the independent development from operating system, and provide
> to everyone this wonderful programming language developed by Benoît Minisini. 
> 
> 
> Gambas is ported only on Mac OS X ?
> 
> In the future, as the Benoît's answer, i would like to see it to others operating systems. 
> I don't stop here ! I currently on the FreeBSD port of Gambas 3. 
> 
> 
> I develop in Gambas 2, and i've some projects in this version, Will you port Gambas 2 as well ?
> 
> my answer is willingly NO. Gambas 3 marks a step forward in its evolution in the core (gambas' kernel)
> and its elements around.  (IDE, components...)
> I can only encourage you to port yours projects to Gambas 3 :) . 
> 
> 
> I am interested to port Gambas to other OS, do you work alone ?
> 
> Any help is welcome! Free time is sometimes difficult to obtain, so the development is slow. 
> You can start one on your side. It's a nice training to learn the compilation mechanics and
> understand how Gambas is made up ! :) . 
> 
> 
> Where can i download Gambas3 for Mac OS X ? Did you done a source tarball ? 
> 
> No links are currently available. 
> Wait the time i make a package for Mac OS X. 
> 
> For source codes, it is currently not recommended. 
> Compiling Gambas on OS X ask to have a good development environment with complex
> manipulations. Writing a "HOW-TO" file is in my todo list, but you're advised that it's not
> my priority!
> 
> Here is a screenshot showing the shrimp. 
> Story you have water in your mouth ;) . 
> 
> http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/445567GB3OSX.jpg
> 
> 
> --
> François Gallo
> 
Any chance of a QT Cocoa version of OSX is the future?