Re: CoreData, OmniBase, OmniFoundation?

[Lloyd Dupont]

thank for the reply.
anyway as it looks quite unpromising yesterday, after a few twitch of the 
code, I was able to get rid of CoreData and OmniStuff, so no worry !!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Perez" <aperez@student.santarosa.edu>
To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: CoreData, OmniBase, OmniFoundation?


> Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> > I'm starting to port a MacOSX application to Windows.
> > I intend to to port the data layer with GNUstep and rewrite the GUI layer 
> > in .NET (and bind them together with something like Cocoa#).
> >
> > Anyway, I just started looking into the windows side.
> > The data layer is dependant on 3 frameworks: CoreData, OmniBase, 
> > OmniFoundation.
> >
> > I wonder if anyone could provide me link to a successful port of these 
> > framework (saving me the pain to do it my self :)
> CoreData is not even technically released yet, so obviously it's 
> impossible for us to have an implementation of it so quickly, and if you 
> expect us to have an implementation already, that's also fairly 
> unreasonable, but we certainly do accept patches, and since you have a 
> need for it... :)
>
> OmniBase depends on several NeXT/Apple runtime-isms, and has never been 
> fully ported to use GNUstep (which uses the GNU runtime), but I have done 
> some work on this a long time ago. Part of the problem is the strange 
> license that Omni requires you to work with, and the other problem is that 
> Omni is not interested in accepting GNUstep compatibility patches, for 
> some bizarre reason.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex Perez
>
>
>
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