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[Steve Baker]

Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> A "daemon" or console process written for OS-X could well be easily recompiled
> on Linux.

Yes.
 
> A GUIed program would require that similar GUI APIs be available on Linux, so
> that if the OS-X program uses the "Quartz" rendering system, not available on
> Linux, it would be problematic to port it over.
> 
> The likely answer is that the "cool, GUIed stuff" probably won't be
> particularly portable...

Well, it depends what GUI library you use.  Several of them are being/have been
ported to OS-X and also run under Linux *and* Windoze - so I think it wouldn't
be hard to write a portable program from the get-go...but porting something
that is riddled with X calls and relies on KDE or something might be a lot
harder.

The GUI stuff in my games ported without change because I use my own GUI library
which renders the widgets using OpenGL and is therefore totally independent of
window manager or underlying windowing system.

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