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Apple's Unix Porting Guide

Posted by pudge on from the i-thought-unix-was-obsolete dept.

hysterion writes "Just came across the nice Unix Porting Guide (pdf) posted by Apple earlier this month. Topics include NetInfo, using Project Builder with gnumake, autoconf, XFree86, Tcl/Tk, Qt ... it is a bit short on scripting languages, and they speak as if KDE were already ported, but other than that I found it an informative read." They also didn't mention fink, and they put "Unix" in all caps. However, they were honest about the shell scripting limitations of AppleScript, although they didn't mention that AppleScript -- especially via osascript -- is pretty buggy in Mac OS X right now (this is my annoyance of the week, so allow me to indulge myself).

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  1. A Good "Where-To", "What's That" Guide by Spencerian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not a developer, but this appears to have answered a great many questions for those developers teetering on the edge of Mac OS X development. My primary questions were answered pretty well from this document.

    The nice thing about this document is how it tacitly implies that writing an OS X app can be done in such a way that it can be deployed just about anywhere with practically any imaging model and with many new or common IDEs. OS X, from a programmer's perspective, must seem extremely flexible.

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  2. KDE + Darwin? by feldsteins · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had no idea that this had occured. It's exciting!

    I'm given to wonder, however, why someone with a full OS X installation would wish to use KDE. Perhaps there are a dozen reasons I can't think off off-hand, but the real prize would be to run KDE on top of Darwin! Is this possible yet?

    Darwin core + good GUI = another no-cost operating system on the loose. It would no doubt have far lower system requirements than OS X, too. The idea has me drooling already.

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  3. Interactive Terminal Support for Applescript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is what they need. If you run a task that takes ~5-10 minutes to complete (update prebindings) your applescript will stall for that long of time. Trying to "backround" it by putting a & at the end doesnt help ether, still waits for the prossess to finnish. I'd be really nice if i could have a little applescript studio application work interactvly with huge perl programs i've already written.

    BTW: if anyone knows how to do this feel free to tell me :) bfc@mac.com