Re: TextMate @ GitHub

[David Chisnall]

I did see some references to ninja in the bits I glanced over.  If it can 
generate Ninja build files, then that might be a better bet.  I'm using Ninja 
for a few things, and it's pretty nice.

David

On 12 Aug 2012, at 14:55, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> The benefits of porting TextMate would be largely political.  It would be 
> something nice to point to and say "yeah, that works."
> 
> I looked at the code myself and agree with both of your conclusions.  I was 
> disappointed that it didn't just use the "standard" tools since there's a 
> possibility that buildtool might have been able to handle it if it had.
> 
> GC
> 
> On Sunday, August 12, 2012, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2012, at 12:45, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> > On 12.08.2012 00:04, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> >> Did you see this? The most advanced text editor for OS X just got open 
> >> sourced!
> >>
> >> https://github.com/textmate/textmate
> >>
> >> http://macromates.com/
> >
> >
> > I had a look after that software was mentioned on the Heise news ticker. 
> > The functionality seems great but the code itself is a lot of C++ and 
> > Objective-C++. Nothing I would be interested in getting supported on 
> > GNUstep.
> 
> Ah, you found the code.  I had a look, but it seemed to be a massive tangle 
> of frameworks, and I gave up looking for the relevant parts.  A lot of people 
> seem to like TextMate, so it might be nice to have a decent port.  
> Objective-C++ is fine - LanguageKit uses Objective-C++ and it works nicely 
> with GNUstep, but the build system for TextMate looks like it would be a lot 
> of work to port.
> 
> David
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