{"id":779,"date":"2006-11-14T22:28:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T22:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/?p=779"},"modified":"2017-04-26T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:32:05","slug":"wesay-for-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wesay-for-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"WeSay for the Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve received the second request for a Mac version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  How hard would it be to compile on the Mac? Seems like it couldn\u2019t be that hard, could it, since your aim is cross-platform? At the worst, it could run in X Windows, where GTK+ supposedly works. GTK+ is not native on the Mac yet, but there are folks working on it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WeSay has layers, roughly: UI, Model, and Persistence (database). All layers but the UI one will run on Mac, since it uses <a href=\"http:\/\/mono-project.com\/\" title=\"\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mono<\/a>. Our current UI layer uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/Gui_Toolkits\" title=\"\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows.Forms<\/a> (not GTK), which runs on Linux but I don\u2019t think on Mac. Cocoa# is a native MacOSX toolkit that is part of Mono.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be a big deal for people to make alternative UIs, whether to go to a different platform or to serve a very different persona. This is real Open Source; if the mac community wants it, they\u2019ll find a programmer we can work with. In the meantime, Mac users can run Linux on a virtual machine; remember WeSay is designed to run on REALLY slow machines, so it\u2019s plenty fast in a VM.<\/p>\n<div class=\"top border\"><a href=\"#top\">top<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve received the second request for a Mac version: How hard would it be to compile on the Mac? Seems like it couldn\u2019t be that hard, could it, since your aim is cross-platform? At the worst, it could run in X Windows, where GTK+ supposedly works. GTK+ is not native on the Mac yet, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/wesay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}