It'd probably be better to port gtk to OS X, if you want native support,
not try to port just the subset that Ethereal uses.
On Tuesday, 23 Apr 2002, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> Hi Sandeep,
>
> I'm running ethereal using an X Server on MacOS X for some time now.
> It is fully usable.
>
> The pnly thing not suported under MacOS X are te plug-ins. This is due
> to some problems with libtools.
>
> A native GUI would be fine, but make sure that you can still use the
> developments made the dev-community.
>
> I think the ethereal code is coupled with the glib stuff. The GUI stuff
> is only available the ethereal code, but not in the tethereal stuff. That
> could be a start of the investiation.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Sandeep Parikh wrote:
>
> >Hi Everyone,
> >
> >I'm considering doing a port of Ethereal to Mac OS X and most
> >everything works with some tweaking, except the GTK part. I've heard
> >about some ppl porting GTK over to OS X but that could be a long time
> >coming, and this is a great tool that would help us out quite a bit...
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone [fairly intimate with the source] could tell
> >me how separate the UI is from the logic behind the scenes?
> >
> >My plan is to create a new objective-c based UI and just make connect
> >it to the underlying code...basically, whip out that old
> >model-view-controller para-dig-em...
> >
> >thanks,
> >-Sandeep
> >
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