[Pharo-dev] question about mars

thanks carla.

I was wondering how it compares with Spec because the idea behind spec is to factor out the logic of the application.

I will discuss with esteban.

Stef

Hi Stef!

The goal is that Mars works on Mac, Linux and also Windows later, and it will have a bridge for each platform. So far there is a bridge for Cocoa and another one for GTK, and later I will introduce the bridge for Windows.

In the screencasts of my last post (http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/how-to-build-a-mars-application-first-examples/) you can find that I show 2 versions of each example: first running on Mac (with Cocoa) and then on Linux (with Gtk). Nevertheless, the code for building a Mars application is platform independent, so you write the application once and you get it working on Mac and Linux.

I haven't heard of VWxWidgets, I will check it out.

Cheers!

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

I thought that Mars was for Mac but it works on Linux. So is it a layer on top of GTK?
How does it compare with the binding to VWxWidgets?
What is the difference with the Cocoa native bridge?

Stef

It's part of my GSoC project to integrate Mars in Spec  :)

Ben

On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

thanks carla.

I was wondering how it compares with Spec because the idea behind spec is to factor out the logic of the application.

I will discuss with esteban.

Stef

Hi Stef!

The goal is that Mars works on Mac, Linux and also Windows later, and it will have a bridge for each platform. So far there is a bridge for Cocoa and another one for GTK, and later I will introduce the bridge for Windows.

In the screencasts of my last post (http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/how-to-build-a-mars-application-first-examples/) you can find that I show 2 versions of each example: first running on Mac (with Cocoa) and then on Linux (with Gtk). Nevertheless, the code for building a Mars application is platform independent, so you write the application once and you get it working on Mac and Linux.

I haven't heard of VWxWidgets, I will check it out.

Cheers!

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

I thought that Mars was for Mac but it works on Linux. So is it a layer on top of GTK?
How does it compare with the binding to VWxWidgets?
What is the difference with the Cocoa native bridge?

Stef