Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] port to OS X

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:05:59 -0700
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> It'd probably be better to port gtk to OS X, if you want native support,
> not try to port just the subset that Ethereal uses.

"Better" in what sense?

It would involve less work cleanly separating GUI code from the rest of
Ethereal, but would

	1) require that you port GTK+ to Quartz (which is probably a
	   non-trivial task)

and

	2) give you an application that looked and acted like a GTK+
	   application rather than a native MacOS X application (unless
	   you have a GTK+ theme that looks like Aqua, but if anybody
	   did *that*, Sandeep's employer would probably sue them so
	   fast their heads would spin) - some would consider "it looks
	   like a GTK+ application" a feature, but others would not, and
	   I'm not at all inclined to dismiss those who would not
	   consider it a feature.