Re: question about low availability of Mac OS X applications that has GnuStep edition

[Ivan Vučica]

Biggest challenge is when one has to delve into the dungeons of OS- 
specific programming. Despite POSIX's existence, each platform has  
slightly different ideas about how stuff works. An example that comes  
to mind is asynchronous sockets - different even between POSIX  
operating systems. Even something so basic like select() behaves  
different on Wine than on Windows (making a freely available, but  
closed, Diablo2 realm server not work).

There are also things I'm not sure GNUstep supports (I did not look  
yet) but which, with invasion of iOS developers onto the Mac platform,  
are bound to become more popular, stuff like Bonjour.

Incompatibilities in underlying platforms are not solvable by using  
bytecode, which any .Net-developer-turned-Mono-developer that used  
PInvoke can attest to.

Regards,

Ivan Vučica
via phone

On 25. sij. 2011., at 02:58, "Zhang Weiwu, Beijing" <zhangweiwu@realss.com 
> wrote:

> On 01/25/2011 06:25 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Linux, *BSD, Solaris... a big mess, don't you think? A maze...
> > GNUstep has its shortcomings, but I think that generally Linux is not
> > such a well-defined and interesting target for many applications.
> > Sadly perhaps, but it is reality.
>
> Consider application authors delver binary due to the fact the source
> code is thus not available, is a byte-code approach possible  
> solution to
> this BUSINESS PROBLEM? Application vendors deliver half-compiled code,
> and standardized installer (an GNU-STEP component) compile it on the
> target machine to target machine binary. Users don't have to know  
> this,
> they see a progress bar anyway, only slower.
>
> Again, I am not on a programing job role, only learned these concepts
> simple because fate had took me to computer science school for 4  
> college
> years. So please be kind when commenting stupid ideas.
>
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