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Re: Is GNUStep still beign updated?
From: |
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller |
Subject: |
Re: Is GNUStep still beign updated? |
Date: |
Fri, 15 May 2015 09:04:44 +0200 |
Hi,
Am 15.05.2015 um 08:57 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald
<richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com>:
> On 15 May 2015, at 02:49, ochi n <ochi12@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm quite new to objective-c. It just looks interesting as an object
>> oriented superset of c, but it looks like I can't even create a class
>> without a framework like GNUStep(that is, without the NSObject root class).
>> Also the latest release of gnustep-base was like two years ago. I just
>> wanted to know whether gnustep is still being updated or not. Because it
>> seems like an excellent framework and the only free(libre) alternative to
>> apple's proprietary cocoa(and without cocoa, objective c is almost useless,
>> as there's no root class and implementing one can be pretty difficult).
>>
>> It may be a stupid question, but the mailing list and the wiki seem mostly
>> inactive so I'm not sure about it.
>
> I think the wiki *is* pretty inactive … for instance, the last release of
> gnustep-base was more like six months ago,
maybe there is a record missing for 1.24.7 in
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/showdetail.php?app=176
> and coincidentaly, the next one is later today (so svn trunk currently
> contains the 1.24.8 version if you are too impatient to wait a few hours for
> the package to be available for download).
BR,
Nikolaus