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Re: GNUstep on MS Windows
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Pascal J . Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: GNUstep on MS Windows |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:35:35 +0100 |
Helge Hess writes:
> a) cross-CPU, like NeXTstep for i386, SPARC, HP and m68k
> b) cross-OS, like X11 on Windows, Linux and MacOSX
> c) cross-UI, like SWT using gtk+ on Linux and Win-UI on Windows
>
> IMHO GNUstep/AppKit on Windows is pretty useless. OpenStep is the wrong
> technology to do option c) above. It can do a) and b), but a) doesn't
> solve the Windows issue and b) provides little value.
What do you mean exactly by "GNUstep/AppKit on Windows is pretty
useless"?
I thought that it was clear that an implementation of the OpenStep API
on MS-Window would open markets to GNUstep and MacOSX developers, this
would not be useless.
Why do you think that "OpenStep is the wrong technology to do option c)"?
It seems to me that it has been designed and a sufficient number of
implementation have been made to implement this cross-UI. OpenStep ran
on Solaris, and on MS-Windows-NT, and now runs on MacOSX and on Linux
or other unix with GNUstep.
I guess that you're saying that since GNUstep is drawing itself its
widgets, it can't provide cross-UI.
But it seems to me that the drawing code is rather well encapsulated
(in a few drawing methods of a little number of graphical classes),
and that it should be possible to either fork a theme, or to use
MS-Windows widgets to do the actual drawing.
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- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Björn Giesler, 2003/12/04
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Chris Hanson, 2003/12/04
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2003/12/05
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Alex Perez, 2003/12/04
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Rogelio M . Serrano Jr ., 2003/12/04
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Helge Hess, 2003/12/04
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows,
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- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Helge Hess, 2003/12/05
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- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Pete French, 2003/12/06
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, thisguyisi, 2003/12/06
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Pete French, 2003/12/06
- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Gregory John Casamento, 2003/12/06
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- Re: GNUstep on MS Windows, Pete French, 2003/12/06
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