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- From: cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: CLIM vendor for MCL
- Message-ID: <9301111705.AA04216@MIT.EDU>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:06:06 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- > Someone tell me the vendor (name, address) and price of CLIM for MCL?
- Lucid in Menlo Park, CA. I think its about $500 but you should talk to
- them directly.
-
- >I have an MCL application that I want to port to an SGI machine with a
- >Franz CLOS/CLIM environment. Does anyone know if there are portable
- >versions (e.g. CLIM) of MCL's GUI interface functions (e.g. those for
- >window, views, dialogs) available? This will save me the time of
- >having to rewrite the GUI code in CLIM.
-
- This is the BIG problem. CLIM 2.0 will have the ability to
- support mac-like dialog items, etc though the beta version from
- Lucid for the Mac isn't due until spring 93.
- Even with 2.0, there's problably a bunch a widget work to do to
- support all the MCL window system stuff we know and love.
-
- Even with all of that a port will not be trivial. It will be more like a
- total rewrite of the GUI part of your code, but at least a rewrite in a
- language that stands a chance of giving you the support you need.
-
- A dark horse candidate for porting MCL apps is Quorum's 'Equal" product
- that some day is supposed to be able to take any Mac application and
- run it on a variety of Unix machines, unchanged. I'm taking about the
- actual binary application, without recompilation.
- My last message from Quarum said they hoped to ship Equal 1st quarter
- 93. This is tricky technology so don't hold your breath. My guess is
- that some extra work will have to be done to get MCL apps to work, just
- because they can't think of everything. Still, that solution would be
- easiest for MCL users.
-
- Quorum has mentioned SGI Indigo in their literature for their other
- product, "Latitude", so I'd be surprised if they're not planning an
- SGI version of Equal.
-
- Quarum is also in Menlo Park, CA, 415 323-3111
-