AWT toolkit for Mac OS X Aqua

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 13:53:38 PST 2009


You could try to submit it as Google Summer of Code project.

- Clemens

2008/9/22 Emmanuel Puybaret <puybaret at eteks.com>:
> Thank you Jeremy for your suggestion.
> I know SourceForge.net quite well because Sweet Home 3D, one of my Open
> Source project is hosted there at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net . ;-)
> But I don't earn money on this project through SourceForge.net, and really
> wonder if some projects got enough donations for their living.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Emmanuel Puybaret
>
> Le 22 sept. 08 à 18:18, Jeremy Denton a écrit :
>
>> The mechanism for setting up a project with financial support is built
>> into sourceforge. You could start a project there.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Emmanuel Puybaret wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> Time passed, and we still didn't develop anything about Aqua AWT Toolkit.
>>>
>>> As I said back in November 2007
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2007-November/000001.html ,
>>> I wanted to spend some time on this, but finally I didn't have the time.
>>> One good thing : I worked with JNI during 5 months this year, and this
>>> will help to develop such a toolkit (but I still have a small knowledge
>>> about Cocoa).
>>> An other good thing for self motivation : month after month, it looks
>>> like Apple won't support old architecture in JDK, and their support for Java
>>> in general is worse and worse. It seems we really need OpenJDK to run on Mac
>>> OS X.
>>>
>>> I write you today to get ideas about how to get some financial support to
>>> help me contribute to this toolkit port. Any idea will be welcome. :-)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> --
>>> Emmanuel PUYBARET
>>> Email  : puybaret at eteks.com
>>> Web    : http://www.eteks.com
>


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