Re: Books probably won't come to GNUstep

[Fred Kiefer]

> A while back I mentioned that I wanted to port Books to GNUstep. That was 
> dependent on the developer offering a Jaguar port, but he no longer plans
> to 
> offer that:
> 
> "While I promised to work on a Jaguar-compatible version of Books, I think
> I 
> can say that it's not going to happen from me. I don't have the time nor 
> environment to develop, test, and support a 10.2 version of Books
> properly. 
> Panther has had time to settle down and work its kinks out, so I'd
> recommend 
> upgrading anyways. And if 10.2 is a requirement, Books version 1.2.3 is
> still 
> as available as it always has been."
> 
> He also talks about how it would be better to make a Linux version from QT
> or 
> GTK than from GNUstep, and using .NET for a Windows version. I don't think
> he 
> has any interest in his app running on GNUstep, and without his help
> porting 
> probably wouldn't be feasible. Sorry to get your hopes up.
> 

You should not give up that soon. Books for GNUstep is not to far away.
Richard did implement NSIndexSet and I mostly implemented the use of it in
NSTableView and the Address framework seems to be fully working already. So
the biggest still missing pieces are the NSSearchButton, is anybody working
on this? and the XML parsing. For the later another level of abstraction
will be needed to replace it with something from GNUstep. Apart from this we
would either convert the NIBs to GMODEL or try to convince Gregory to speed
up the development of NIB loading, which seems not to far away. And finally
some cleanup of the code of Books is needed. When I am back home, not
struggling with a frensh keyboard, I may send you my version of the code to
hand it on to that reluctant developer. Hopefully this bit of contribution
changes his attitude to GNUstep.

Most important: Doyou still regard this application important enough to
spend our time on? From what I found in the source code I was not to
impressed, but Inever saw it running.

Fred

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