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Re: What is GNUStep used for?
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Re: What is GNUStep used for? |
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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:58:54 -0700 (PDT) |
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On 15 Okt., 00:25, Gary Dumer <gedu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Exactly what is GNUStep used for?
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> Here's what I can figure out:
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> 1. It's not an operating system.
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> 2. It's not a GUI builder.
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> 3. It includes Objective-C as its main application building tool.
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> 4. It has some really ugly, retro looking apps (Gorm... etc.) for developing
> programs.
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> What I'd like to know:
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> 1. Is it designed to promote Objective-C?
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> 2. If it does not produce GUI apps, how were Gorm... etc. produced?
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> 3. Is it mainly for Linux and Windows?
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> 4. Is it necessary to use GNUStep and its libraries or may I just write ObjC
> apps using GCC?
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> The website doesn't do a very good job of introducing potential new users to
> the true purpose and use of GNUStep.
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> So I repeat... What is GNUStep used for?
You can see GNUstep as the "Standard Obj-C Libraries (+ some tools)"
in a similar way as libc for C, C++ Standard Library for C++, J2SE/GNU
classpath for JAVA, etc.