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It doesn't seem to work in OS X 10.8, it starts then closes immediately. Also the choice of wxWIdgets for a new app is quite unfortunate, I think Qt is generally easier to develop with and to make it work on different platforms.

The idea of a minimalist cross-platform and open source Bittorrent client is great though, I really wish there was some good alternative to replace uTorrent.

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> It doesn't seem to work in OS X 10.8, it starts then closes immediately.

I'm opening a bug report for this. I didn't check 10.8 yet.

> Also the choice of wxWIdgets for a new app is quite unfortunate, I think Qt is generally easier to develop with and to make it work on different platforms.

wxWidgets is the only toolkit I know of that uses native widgets on all platforms. Other toolkits draw things manually, although some (such as Qt) are getting better at integrating with the graphics and metrics of individual platforms.

Using wxWidgets was a deliberate decision that I made early in the process.

You really want Transmission.

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

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