Port to OSX

[yderidde]

Any plan to port it to OSX ?

[PrimaryFeather]

Yes, that's finally becoming realistic again! Actually, I had dropped those plans a while ago, but thanks to the help of the Sparrow user @racarone, this goal is back on the roadmap.

We'll get rid of the GLKit dependencies soon after the release of Sparrow 2.1, and this is one of the most important steps that are required (because GLKit is not complete on OS X). I believe that Robert has already done more towards this goal in his personal fork.

[yderidde]

I'm confused now, as far as i'm aware, GLKit is available on OSX since Mountain Lion.
Is there any issue with it that you decided to remove that dependency ? When do you think we will be able to test an early port to OSX ?

[PrimaryFeather]

Unfortunately, the OS X version is not identical to iOS, e.g. "GLKView" and "GLKViewController" are missing; I think there's also no EAGLContext. (See here). I can't say when there will be a prototype, since Robert will do that work, and I don't know what else is on his plate ;-).

Perhaps he can chime in!

[racarone]

As Daniel said GLKit on OSX does not include GLKView, GLKViewController. Sparrow also relies on some iOS only classes that either don't exist in OSX or are implemented differently. Once 2.1 is finalized I'll probably start working towards making Sparrow OSX compatible.

[PrimaryFeather]

Thanks for filling in the details, Robert! :-)