Re: [GSoC] Make WebKit run on top of GNUstep

[David Chisnall]

On 4 Apr 2017, at 01:46, Stefan Bidigaray <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As the mostly missing-in-action maintainer of CoreBase, I am very excited to 
> hear a GSoC student interested in GNUstep. I started CoreBase exactly because 
> it was mentioned many time on this list as a pre-requisite for a WebKit port, 
> so it's really good to hear someone willing to put the time in.
> 
> If you haven't had a chance to look at the CoreBase code, yet, I can tell you 
> it's been sitting for the last 2 years with little-to-no commits. That being 
> said, I would be glad to help point you in the right direction anyway I can. 
> Despite my lack of participation recently, I still keep a fairly 
> comprehensive to-do list. I'll do my best to support you in any way I can.

It might also be worth looking at the Microsoft version of CoreFoundation.  
They ported SwiftFoundation, which is permissively licensed, and replaced their 
earlier approach that wrapped Objective-C in C (as CoreBase does).  I’ve not 
looked at the code, but when I was in Redmond a couple of weeks ago the 
Islandwood team were much happier with their new version than the old.

David