Re: Plans for ahead

[Maxthon Chan]

I would suggest that we should embrace ourselves for the impact of Apple open 
sourcing Swift, and adapt the GNUstep environment to take advantage of, or 
serve as a host of, the Swift 2.0 environment.

There are several possibilities in Apple open sourcing Swift, given its tight 
ties to Cocoa:

1) The Swift for Linux uses a different library and does not support 
Objective-C interoperability at all. This would be a bummer and we cannot 
cooperate with it.
2) Apple would submit a big patch set to one of the open source Cocoa 
reimplementation (including GNUstep) to bring it up to speed with Apple, and 
build Swift for Linux on top of that. If we are the receiving end of the patch 
set it would be a tremendous opportunity for us.
3) Apple open source their own Cocoa implementation to support Swift for Linux. 
We can then take advantage of that and start adapt GNUstep as a patch or 
additions to Cocoa for Linux.

Max

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:36, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Interesting idea, I hope I got it right:
> Would using linux-libre for "the" GNUstep (or NeXtStep) OS be
> appropriate?
> Could base it on one of these:
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
> 
> -- 
> Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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