[Gvsig_english] mac support

[pvmstg hotmail pop]

Hi, thanks for taking time to send me info.  It's make problematic  
more clear now.

@ Silvio
This is and egg and chichen problem.... Yes I could use linux  
distribution (I have, for fun, unbuntu install in virtual box).  The  
basic of my dream, for a simple end user (no programming skill nor  
money) like I said in one of my first post more than a year ago, it's  
to be able to show alternative to the verry small firm I partly work  
for.  They are all windows base with arcview arcmap configuration.  We  
make navigational charts and maps.  Since I hate windows (sorry for  
windows users) and I'm frustrated about the multiple problems of  
arcmap, I'm always in the search for gis alternatives that can do the  
job on win and for me, get peace by doing finaly the job on mac.

Since for myself I do not need more than udig or qgis does, using  
linux doesn't answer my problem.  If I need a tool only for myself, I  
will prefer going to stricly a mac base development gis who take care  
of all the power of the mac like Cartographica.


@ Duke

I hope you are wrong.  In the conference they said they will release  
the api in timing with the 9,4 arcmap release.  Since they support  
linux on server side and java etc on web, maybe the api will be  
available for other os than win.  Wait and see.

All depend of the goal.  Like discuss a year ago, if the goal is to  
offer gis capability, yes, you do not need access to filegeodatabase.   
But, since it's the standar for firm and organisation working with  
arcmap product, the only way to make a penetration in these place is  
to be able not to tell them to scrap all the work done and start  
fress.  My small firm doesn't have the ressource by example to convert  
data already made in a format to and other one and... mostly, to start  
again.

@ César

It's just that, at first the project, with it's statament about  
multiplatform and the effectively release of a mac version leave  
hope.  Now for me my big hope have been reduce to wait and maybe.  I  
know it's not a small task but if at the begening the project was  
linux-win advertised, I had not make myself...


Good works and I still looking foward for the stable release to spread  
the world.

Marcel