[R-SIG-Mac] Speaking of GUIs on the Mac...

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Byron Ellis wrote:

> Are Stefano and Simon going to unveil the reason for the mysterious 
> bundle loading code present in the Aqua module now that we've passed 
> the 1.9.0 mark? An iTerm-based console perhaps? Something even cooler? 
> Pluggable interfaces? We burn with curiosity :-)

Stefano, can't we make a R-sig-mac-only release of the Cocoa stuff? 
Just for those few interested ;)?

Byron, conception-wise we have a pluggable interface (it's not 100% 
clean yet, because we still need to replace some Carbon stuff - think 
of all the objects browsers, editors and similar bells and whistles 
that Carbon R had), and a nice Cocoa implementation of the basic 
console. The Cocoa code includes the Obj-C interface to R (we use it 
e.g. in code completion part) that I was speaking of while ago. 
Currently the main problem are time constrains (especially on my side) 
since a real release would need more polishing. Also synchronization 
issues between threads aren't resolved yet (need to modify Quartz for 
that).

Event loop stuff is still not sorted out and I doubt it will be any 
time soon (both technical and time constraints). OT: In that respect my 
biggest hope is our JGR project which in the end will provide and 
integrate seamlessly all: GUI, graphics and widgets (first private DP 
release for Mac and Win is expected this week).

Cheers,
Simon

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