Re: CrystaX and GNUstep

[Gregory Casamento]

German

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> El jue, 26-03-2015 a las 01:47 -0400, Gregory Casamento escribió:
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> >         El jue, 26-03-2015 a las 00:15 -0400, Gregory Casamento
> >         escribió:
> >         > German
> >         >
> >         > On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Germán Arias
> >         <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> >         >         Some weeks ago I tried to install gnustep-base on
> >         CrystaX [1]
> >         >         However
> >         >         the support for Objective-C is not complete. But
> >         CrystaX has
> >         >         been
> >         >         started a fundraising campaign [2] and one of its
> >         goal is
> >         >         provide a
> >         >         complete support for Objective-C and (depending of
> >         the
> >         >         collected money)
> >         >         frameworks like CoreData and CoreGraphics. If that
> >         campaign is
> >         >         successful, it can also be great for GNUstep.
> >         >
> >         >         Germán
> >         >
> >         >         [1] https://www.crystax.net/en
> >         >         [2]
> >         https://www.bountysource.com/teams/crystaxndk/fundraiser
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I'm not a naysayer and what he's planning sounds beneficial.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > His fundraiser doesn't seem to mention GNUstep.  Is he
> >         thinking about
> >         > implementing these Cocoa compatible frameworks without
> >         leveraging
> >         > GNUstep?
> >
> >         I think yes, but if they offers full support for Objective-C
> >         we will be
> >         able to install GNUstep (at least gnustep-base) on CrystaX
> >         with the
> >         advantage that libcrystax offers all functionalities missed on
> >         libc of
> >         android (Bionic).
> >
> >         Germán.
> >
> >         >
> >         > GC
> >         >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I guess I'm confused.  Why do people think implementing it themselves
> > is the shorter path to success?  Does he not know about GNUstep?  I
> > admit I was amused at the one month estimate for implementing a Cocoa
> > compatible Foundation.
> >
> >
> > GC
> >
>
> He know GNUstep. See (section 4 "Objective-C support"):
>
> https://www.crystax.net/en/android/ndk/7
>
> Germán

I see.  I do question his reasoning though.  Porting GNUstep to android has happened twice.  Once with Apportable and again by Ivan Vucica (who got foundation compiling).  Porting GNUstep omis by far easier than rewriting it.  So, while its an admirable project, it will take a lot longer than he thinks to get everything done. 

GC 

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