Re: GNUstep.app, was: Debian Package Repository...

[Ivan Vučica]

Love the website, thanks!

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:56 PM Johannes Brakensiek
<johannes@brakensiek.info> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> On 15 Dec 2020, at 21:28, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
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> > In the meantime I installed Arch/Manjaro on my development laptop as
> > you are provided with much more recent packages when using a rolling
> > release. And the Arch PKGBUILD system is quite easy to set up, so I've
> > created some Arch packages using clang and libobjc2. These are
> > compiled from git sources and thus provide some sort of continous
> > delivery for development purposes:
> >
> > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:letterus:gnustep-ngr
> >
> > That said I'd happily provide information on how to retrigger builds
> > for the app/project you maintain to deliver a fresh build if you wish.
> >
> > One would have to add, that openSUSE's Open Build Service currently
> > only provides x86_64 packages for Arch PKGBUILD files.
> >
> > This is not the case for Debian and RPM spec files. So I would of
> > course add packaging instructions for additional distributions and
> > architectures in case anybody would like to provide these.
>
> > P.S.: For Manjaro users (I really like it); Add a panel to the top of
> > the screen, add a global menu there and set GNUstep to use the
> > Sombre.theme from Bertrand Dekoninck. From a optical point of view it
> > integrates nicely, I think.
>
> just to let you know. I used the time after Christmas to prepare a
> little showcase on how to develop GNUstep apps when coming from
> macOS/Cocoa (these apps using AppKit) and how to integrate these into a
> popular desktop environment (because I think that’s what new devs
> would be interested in):
>
> https://gnustep.app/
>
> It was a nice experience to put together some bits and pieces I learned
> and explored the last year.
>
> Hope you enjoy as well
> Johannes
>