Interested in a Mac OS X (Cocoa) interface?

2007/7/15, Tim Lahey <tim.lahey at gmail.com>:

> > I'm now interested in writing a Maxima environment in Cocoa for Mac OS X. wxMaxima and the TeXMacs interface are pretty good, but getting either of them up and running on a Mac is no simple task. (I still haven't gotten wxMaxima to work perfectly yet) And while both interfaces have sufficient functionality, they aren't very pretty, and aren't the easiest to use for novices.

I use Maxima on Mac OS X as well as on GNU/linux (ubuntu) and, as much
as I would appreciate such a nice GUI, I would regret that much effort
be undertaken on a new project that would not serve as well the users
of Maxima on all (or at least most) platform and be really
interoperable.

I bet, I could be possible to work on wxmaxima and ameliorate it for
it to be 1/ easy to install and use on the Mac OS X, 2/ a better and
nicer interface on the 3 main platforms (Mac OS X, GNU/linux and
Windows) alike.

I really fear that your work would not be portable and interoperable,
and be only linked to ONE proprietary platform (be it a nice and good
one)

Thanks anyway for your efforts,

Nicolas
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