On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:35:04PM -0800, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> A couple of people have poked at Cadsoft to see if they'd consider a
> MacOS-X version of Eagle (it ought not be TOO difficult, right?)

You wouldn't think so. :) It looks like they're using some cross
platform toolkit as it is.  I did a strings on the binary and turned
up names like "QWidget" and "QString"... Qt.  This surprised me 'cause
I always thought Eagle looked GTK-ish.  Qt now has a native OS X port.
At the very least an X windows version would be doable with Apple's
latest announcement:

  http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

I'd rather have a X app that didn't quite fit the Mac look and feel
rather than no app at all.

> If you're a PAYING Eagle customer, your voice would have more
> weight...

True... especially if you are one of those paying customers buying the
server version of Eagle Professional.  I, however, am not.  :)

> I was hoping they'd do it just to be able to say they ran on all three major
> operating systems...

That would be quite an accomplishment.  With Qt on OS X, maybe there's
hope.

-Dave

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