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Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)
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Gregory John Casamento |
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Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace) |
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Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:37:12 -0700 (PDT) |
Andy,
Allow me to make it clear:
* The GNUstep Project is committed to Cocoa compatibility. Period.
You have nothing to fear on that front.
Later, GJC
--
Gregory CasamentoGNUstep Chief Maintainer/Gorm Maintainer
----- Original Message ----
From: andy.somogyi <andy.somogyi@gmail.com>
To: Discuss GNUstep <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:47:30 PM
Subject: Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)
In my opinion, I think Cocoa compatibility is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to
GNUStep.
It is on the basis of Cocoa compatibility that I managed to convince
my department
that Cocoa / GNUStep should be the way to go for our development
needs. We need
application framework that is compatible with Mac / Linux.
So far, most of the stuff I have developed does not make heavy use of
GUI features,
mostly they just draw to image surfaces, and draw these to a NSView.
Much of the
new stuff we work on uses NSOpenGLView, but I have not tried this on
Linux yet.
We also used GNUStep / Linux on a daily basis because our XGrid
cluster consists
mostly of Linux boxes (as compute nodes, they are cheaper than Macs),
and make
extensive use of the GNUStep / Objective-C classes on the Linux
compute nodes.
If the GNUStep team decides that we do not need Cocoa compatibility,
then I have
a lot of explaining to do.
Anyway, I think developing new features not in Cocoa is great,
provided that they
are implemented as libraries which can be used with Cocoa. This is
one reason
why I think Objective C categories are so nice.
Without GNUStep Cocoa compatibility, we would have to go to some
truly nasty
(relative to Cocoa) libraries like ugh, QT, ugh.
On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Vaisburd, Haim wrote:
> From: Nicolas Roard [mailto:nicolas.roard@gmail.com]
>
>>> - what do we really gain from compatibility?
>
>> But there's also apps like Vienna or Sketch we ported
>> straight from OSX to GNUstep/etoile, apps that fabien
>> ported too (MPlayer, etc), and I forget others.
>> And there's as usual all the apps that people don't report
>> about (eg I wrote some custom apps for my research that work
>> on OSX and on GNUstep straight away, and I was very thankful
>> to have GNUstep for that).
>
> Then I have to admit my mistake - I thought Mac OSX compatibility
> had very limited usage.
>
> --Tima
>
>
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- Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), (continued)
- Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Markus Hitter, 2007/08/03
- Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Gregory John Casamento, 2007/08/03
- RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Vaisburd, Haim, 2007/08/03
- RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Vaisburd, Haim, 2007/08/06
- RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Vaisburd, Haim, 2007/08/07
- RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace), Vaisburd, Haim, 2007/08/08
- Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace),
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