From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 06:40:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD3A1065672 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:40:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f18.google.com (mail-qy0-f18.google.com [209.85.221.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065558FC12 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so1642192qyk.19 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:40:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=7JZ6/WcCPFyXvTERTo/V73WrX47aYkcqOGMU11bafYI=; b=eTtXI3JluP1dhDUrIi6k6A1tascyc51YmWqOEJHYIcm+MQmlMER6nOxGqumTfbAOjY zeVm+waX3SrNgiXNoe7A0/usgrCmUz9zK7pKYucq2RvyC7U+meUvaQqqnd38YeTZkCeW GvMs1cEXFiYWlrGzbeYQMqzmSq9BKuuxZBwds= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=bBYOl2KG0EvPqxivOzidjYB43vzHl44PYrXt9xmEAYP5NdmaGWrKLetCW5dKKZfQfB Q12CeYllCg4Kl2yuhgsRke69AILcrPEyVCdQgDDSCAbJb+VxdNz6sy7lGPc5+Bfoy2fb D6G5ubFTr9DUuQdRBGntFrrxx+/hOqC2bg/s0= Received: by 10.214.59.16 with SMTP id h16mr1699898qaa.300.1227507563504; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.215.41.16 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:19:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:19:23 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" To: "Mike Meyer" In-Reply-To: <20081124002133.500eec9e@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4927E659.3010602@kukulies.org> <44979.201.198.34.106.1227489354.squirrel@webmail7.pair.com> <20081124002133.500eec9e@bhuda.mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:40:49 -0000 On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: --snip-- > So while a Darwin (the OS underneath OSX) ABI would be possible - > though it's not clear how painful because it's not clear how visible > the MACH APIs are - it's not clear how useful it would be by > itself. You could run OSX applications that used X11 for the GUI after > building the appropriate libraries (just like Linux), but those apps > are probably available native anyway. You couldn't run applications > that use the various and sundry Mac-specific graphics (among other > things) frameworks, not without providing code to simulate all the > calls provided by those frameworks - which are proprietary, and not > part of Darwin. Which means this project now resembles WINE more than > the Linux ABI layer. > >