On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
Hi,
Following article made me think:
http://macslash.org/article.pl?
sid=05/10/05/1132218&mode=thread&threshold=-1
What do you think about showing, in some official way, to the
OO.org development
community, that there is GNUstep that can be used as an option
for creating at
least some parts of OO.org OS X port? I mean, main argument
should be:
- if they would use GNUstep, they will widen developer and
support base to those
who do not own a Mac and therefore do not have OS X
- on OS X they would use Cocoa, on other platforms they can use
GNUstep for
development
- with GCC 4+ it would be possible to mix Objective C (cocoa)
code with C++
(oo.org) code
I think they are not very aware of GNUstep.
We should definitely try to raise their awareness. I see on a
referenced page there that they are thinking Cocoa, which is
good, but my biggest fear is still that they would undertake the
effort using Carbon, which other big and recent projects have
done (Mozilla port, Andrew Choi's Emacs and XEmacs ports, etc.).
I think this usually happens when the developers in charge come
from a Carbon and/ or C++ background or start from an OS 9 base.
It's unfortunate, both because it shuts out GNUstep, and because
using the higher-level Cocoa API is cleaner, easier, and more
maintainable.