[Mono-osx] Why not implement WPF using OpenGL on Mac OS X?

[Mike Caron]

How similar are WPF and Core Animation? Is it possible to think of
implementing WPF in terms of applying Core Foundation library calls?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > However, what about using OpenGL? I know that OpenGL is more efficient
> > and cleaner than DirectX.
>
> If we ever got to that point, chances are, we would use OpenGL on Linux
> and MacOS.
>
> The problem has never been that, the problem has always been the
> magnitude of implementing WPF.
>
> > If the current Mono codebase is too entrenched in bindings to Carbon
> > or 32-bit only libraries, I suggest forking the code to a new project
> > based solely on Mac OS X technologies that will be 64 bit in Snow
> > Leopard, such as Cocoa and OpenGL.
>
> So you want to fork some 6 million lines of code, because Windows.Forms
> contains 2,500 lines worth of Carbon code?
>
> > And why not jetison Windows Forms and focus on WPF implemented in
> > OpenGL, the closest equivelent to DirectX on Mac and Linux?
>
> A full WPF implementation would probably need some 3-4 years worth of
> work.    And then you have to ask yourself if it is really worth
> bringing WPF to the Mac.
>
> But I do not want to discourage you, if you want to work on WPF for the
> Mac, by all means, start writing code.   The code for Mono's WPF lives
> in the Olive module.   Start sending patches.
>
> Miguel.
>
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