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Victor Eijkhout

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Aug 11, 2009, 2:26:33 PM8/11/09
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Apple's web site says that CF is open source; there is mention of a
CF-lite product; but I can't find any download link, on the regular site
or in ADC.

Help?

Here's my context: I'm support for a linux cluster, and a user wants to
port an appication that was developed on a Mac. So I'm not looking for
statements that CF is included in Xtools or so, I would really like a
download so that I can install it on my cluster.

Victor.

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Tom Harrington

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Aug 11, 2009, 2:40:15 PM8/11/09
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In article <1j4ad8e.juylb73cewkxN%s...@sig.for.address>,
s...@sig.for.address (Victor Eijkhout) wrote:

> Apple's web site says that CF is open source; there is mention of a
> CF-lite product; but I can't find any download link, on the regular site
> or in ADC.
>
> Help?

<http://www.opensource.apple.com/>

> Here's my context: I'm support for a linux cluster, and a user wants to
> port an appication that was developed on a Mac. So I'm not looking for
> statements that CF is included in Xtools or so, I would really like a
> download so that I can install it on my cluster.

Well OK, but Core Foundation is nowhere near enough to port most Mac
apps.

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Victor Eijkhout

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Aug 11, 2009, 2:58:39 PM8/11/09
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Tom Harrington <t...@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

> > Here's my context: I'm support for a linux cluster, and a user wants to
> > port an appication that was developed on a Mac. So I'm not looking for
> > statements that CF is included in Xtools or so, I would really like a
> > download so that I can install it on my cluster.
>
> Well OK, but Core Foundation is nowhere near enough to port most Mac
> apps.

If it's pure C, no graphics elements, just CF for nifty language
constructs?

Tom Harrington

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Aug 11, 2009, 4:45:37 PM8/11/09
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In article <1j4aenf.1456tfr68c9eN%s...@sig.for.address>,
s...@sig.for.address (Victor Eijkhout) wrote:

> Tom Harrington <t...@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:
>
> > > Here's my context: I'm support for a linux cluster, and a user wants to
> > > port an appication that was developed on a Mac. So I'm not looking for
> > > statements that CF is included in Xtools or so, I would really like a
> > > download so that I can install it on my cluster.
> >
> > Well OK, but Core Foundation is nowhere near enough to port most Mac
> > apps.
>
> If it's pure C, no graphics elements, just CF for nifty language
> constructs?

As long as it's Core Foundation, and not Foundation itself. And as long
as it fits within the the CF "lite" that Apple distributes.

Doc O'Leary

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Aug 12, 2009, 11:39:30 AM8/12/09
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In article <1j4ad8e.juylb73cewkxN%s...@sig.for.address>,
s...@sig.for.address (Victor Eijkhout) wrote:

> Apple's web site says that CF is open source; there is mention of a
> CF-lite product; but I can't find any download link, on the regular site
> or in ADC.
>
> Help?
>
> Here's my context: I'm support for a linux cluster, and a user wants to
> port an appication that was developed on a Mac. So I'm not looking for
> statements that CF is included in Xtools or so, I would really like a
> download so that I can install it on my cluster.

What you're probably looking more for is something like GNUstep:

http://www.gnustep.org/

Porting ease will depend on how many advanced features you used in
developing the application for the Mac.

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