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[Magnus Rohde <address@hidden>]

Den 20/1-2006, kl. 11:19, Peter Jung wrote:

> This is certainly right. At least, mac-users will now be much more 
> ready to download a dmg, than having to cope with fink. However I 
> fear, that the potential new mac users downloading the texmacs.dmg 
> also could get frightened by the contrast between their expectation 
> wrt an app in a dmg and the experience they have in this case.

OpenOffice (on Mac OS X) existed for a long time only as a X11-program, 
and they were able to recruit many people, and at least one developer 
so they could make NeoOffice. And since TeXmacs has more appleal to 
technical minded people maybe it will be easier to get some 
cocoa-developers on board? With regard to teTeX distributions, I think 
it should be able to use Gerben Wieda's teTex, as it comes in a real 
Mac application and not via fink. That way you could install TeXmacs 
without touching the commandline, and that will have an appeal to a lot 
of users (me included).

> To really attract a lot of mac users one ultimately would need a 
> native port. I am currently considering this possibility. But I am not 
> an experienced cocoa-developer, either.

It will be very time consuming to make a native cocoa version, maybe if 
TeXmacs was using GNUstep it would be easier.


regards
Magnus