[tomboy-list] Tomboy on Mac

[Randy Syring]

Just to throw something out there.

I don't know much about Tomboy's internals or how much you plan to 
re-write, but if you are going to be re-writing a large chunk of code 
for only one platform, does it make sense to use a development kit that 
will work equally well across all platforms?  I'm thinking of something 
like TortoiseHG here which uses python and PyQT I believe so that it can 
run on Windows/*Nix/Mac.

Have a single code base seems to makes sense if at all possible.

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On 02/29/2012 10:33 AM, Jared Jennings wrote:
> Completely agree and from a developers point of view this isn't a 
> small task. I think there could be some really nice payoffs for this, 
> but I don't want to loose any of the existing work. There are a lot of 
> add-ins already in place and supported; these wouldn't migrate over to 
> Mac or IOS or such. That would be another discussion how to best 
> handle that.
>
> -Jared
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Olivier Bilodeau 
> <olivier at bottomlesspit.org <mailto:olivier at bottomlesspit.org>> wrote:
>
>     Great plan! Can't wait to see progress on this.
>
>     Be careful about regressions. Starting from scratch tends to
>     reintroduce problems.
>     --
>     Olivier Bilodeau <olivier at bottomlesspit.org
>     <mailto:olivier at bottomlesspit.org>>
>     On my mobile phone, please excuse my brevity.
>
>     On Feb 28, 2012 6:20 PM, "Jared Jennings"
>     <jaredljennings at gmail.com <mailto:jaredljennings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'm probably going to stir a pot or later realize that I am
>         talking crazy, but that's what I do :)
>
>         While trying to get Tomboy to run on Lion I realized that
>         there's no easy way to use MonoMac. It crosses between GTK and
>         Cocoa. I've already been thinking about writing Tomboy for IOS
>         and Android using the Mono libraries. So with that in mind I
>         am proposing the following.
>
>         We pull the current Tomboy core code into a library.
>         We build a new Tomboy project for Mac, based on MonoMac.
>         The existing Tomboy code will remain GTK and slowly transition
>         to utilizing the newer Tomboy library.
>
>         I'm willing to care most of this effort, although of course
>         would welcome ALL the contribution possible. I will host all
>         of the work on public repo's so anyone can play at any time.
>
>         I think this will enhance the user experience for Tomboy,
>         especially on Mac.
>         Future cross-platform support could become more easy.
>         Also it would help push us to breaking code from GUI as we had
>         discussed in the past.
>
>         Thoughts welcome.
>
>         -Jared
>
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