Subject: Interested in a Mac OS X (Cocoa) interface?
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:52:15 -0600
On 7/14/07, Matthew Sarnoff <msarnoff at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I realize that a Mac-only application would only benefit users of one
> platform, and, if it were written in Objective-C, it would not be
> portable.
Just to restate the obvious: You are free to develop anything
you want, for any platform you want, by any means you want,
so long as the license terms of Maxima are honored.
If the result were to be distributed as part of the official
Maxima project, there would have to be some discussion.
But that is certainly no reason for anyone to forgo their own project.
In fact there are several independent projects listed at:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.shtml
Each one expresses some interesting idea, and I take their
existence as a sign of Maxima's ongoing vitality.
As a practical matter, it might be easier to make progress by
jumping on someone else's bandwagon. But I don't think there
is any existing work on a Cocoa interface, so you'll be breaking
new ground.
best
Robert