Re: GNUstep theming (was Re: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard)

[Dr Tomaž Slivnik]

> > How viable would it be to write a compatibility layer for OpenStep  
> > 4.2 Intel architecture apps to run on Darwin Intel + GnuStep  
> > (possibly after being patched a little by an automatic patcher  
> > program)?
>
> Excuse me, but this in nonsense. Instead of putting huge efforts  
> into a fragile-by-design compatibility layer you really should fix  
> current, available source (GNUstep).

Either there is a clean way to write the compatibility layer or there  
isn't. A clean way (e.g. if there is a single .dylib or a small set  
of .dylibs which contain the entire interface to all the system  
calls) would not be fragile.

I'm not suggesting this is possible, I'm asking if it is. What I have  
in mind is being able to run Lighthouse and other existing OpenStep  
apps. Unless you can get your hands on the sources I can't see how  
changing GnuStep is going to help you.

Last time I'd heard, Sun was not interested in releasing the  
Lighthouse suite of sources - but hey it's worth trying every once in  
a while, they may change their mind. Anyone know where  
www.quantrix.com got their code base from, was it written from  
scratch or licensed from Sun? Would they port to GnuStep?