[MonoDevelop] Native OS X port

[Alex Corrado]

Here is a patch with the code I've hacked at so far. MD gets its  
splash up and then hangs.

>> MD is currently pretty tightly coupled to gtk#, so having a
>> cocoa# front end will make for some interesting re-factors.  I'd  
>> love to
>> help you with it, though, so please let us see the code that you've
>> developed so far.

> any patches to improve the separaration
> cleanly would be much-appreciated.

I will try to help separate the gui-dependent code from the gui- 
independent code as much as possible as I go through. However I am so  
unfamiliar with the structure of MD that I am very hesitant to change  
more than a few lines of code here and there.

At this point, I have just commented out the Gtk code and swapped in  
the equivalent Cocoa# code. I guess there should be a configure  
switch and preprocessor directives to select between Gtk and cocoa?  
Or perhaps there is a better way?

Alex
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On Apr 8, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Michael Hutchinson wrote:

> On 4/8/07, C.J. Adams-Collier <cjcollier at colliertech.org> wrote:
>> Hey there Alex,
>>
>> Please feel free to post your patches here and we'll help you review
>> them.  MD is currently pretty tightly coupled to gtk#, so having a
>> cocoa# front end will make for some interesting re-factors.  I'd  
>> love to
>> help you with it, though, so please let us see the code that you've
>> developed so far.
>>
>> IMHO, we should de-couple the front end from the rest of the features
>> and make a native Forms front end as well as Cocoa#.  However,  
>> lluis and
>> the novell guys are already quite busy with their own work.
>
> Actually, Lluis has already done a lot of work to split out the GUI
> stuff into separate assemblies and namespaces where possible, so that
> MD can be used as a command-line tool without depending on GTK#. The
> problem is that a *lot* of the IDE is necessarily GUI-dependent, and
> there are limits to how much you can split out.
>
> See http://www.monodevelop.com/Architecture_Overview for info about
> the architecture: MonoDevelop.Core and MonoDevelop.Projects should be
> able to be used unmodified. Apart from that, huge chunks will need to
> be rewitten to make it natively Cocoa#. IMO it's important to avoid
> forking as far as possible, so any patches to improve the separaration
> cleanly would be much-appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Michael Hutchinson
> http://mjhutchinson.com