From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27614 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2004 18:15:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27600 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2004 18:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.170.83) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 18:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@67.122.112.109 with plain) by smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 18:15:03 -0000 Subject: Re: [Xconq-general] Re: New File Release: xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20041228 From: Lincoln Peters To: Bob Beaty Cc: xconq7 , xconq-general@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: References: <41D0BEC6.1020505@phy.cmich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:28:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1104257725.402.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01492.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 12:04 -0600, Bob Beaty wrote: > I think the new release sounds great. > I wondered if the support for Mac OSX has simply dried up? > I see in the SourceForge web site that it's considered > "unsupported". That would be too bad. I was excited when the port to > OS X was done and have been keeping up ever since. While I understand > the market forces, I would have thought that xconq is not so much > about market forces as the desire by some great guys to do great work > and share it with a bunch of happy gamers. As I understand it, the problem is that with the UI code in the state it's currently in, there is little incentive to continue to support all of these different operating systems with different UI's. Hopefully, when the SDL interface is completed, it will work on all platforms and this will no longer be an issue. --- Lincoln Peters Actually, typing random strings in the Finder does the equivalent of filename completion. -- Discussion on file completion vs. the Mac Finder