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Re: OpenStep: Advice Needed
From: |
Stefan Böhringer |
Subject: |
Re: OpenStep: Advice Needed |
Date: |
27 Nov 2001 14:55:08 +0100 |
Definitely it would be nice, but how realistic is it to find volunteers
for that, given the challenges GNUstep still faces?
IMHO an internet hosted conversion for both nibs and projects would
probably be the easiest solution, which of course is also quite a
challenging task with the costs of internet-hosting added.
I myself have Openstep still installed and can convert there. Certainly
efforts on conversion should scale with demand. I myself will port only
two apps in the future, BibView.app (an application for editing
BibTex-files, which reportedly has been ported to Openstep, but for
which no sources are available) and a private app (and yes, it uses EOF
1!).
Best wishes, Stefan
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 14:06, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>
> Stefan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=F6hringer?=
> <stefan.boehringer+usenet@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Just one sidenote: The scripts were at least partially Perl. Perhaps
> > (which I had to check) the whole conversion process might be cut out of
> > the OPENSTEP environment (except for the nib files).
> > Back some time there was some initiative of Web-based nib-conversion.
> > This initiative, unfortunatly never came into being.
>
> Most of them use a NeXT-custom tool to substitute Objective-C method
> names (and do other string substitutions). To cut out the conversion
> process, we would need to rewrite this tool.
>
> Perhaps it would be interesting to do it, because most NeXTSTEP
> application never were converted to OPENSTEP since there was a binary
> upward compatibility, but now, we have a collection of NeXTSTEP
> applications (with sources available) on http://www.peanuts.org/, that
> could be converted directly to GNUstep.
>
>
> Searching on Peanuts pure source archives (filename containing
> \.s\.tar), we have 462 source packages for NeXTSTEP and only 14 for
> OpenStep.
>
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