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Re: Objective C-- and multiple inheritance [OT]

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 09:58 PM, Dennis De Mars wrote:

Also, the GnuStep project, which is trying to basically produce an open-source version of NextStep/OpenStep, which will work on many platforms including Windows, reportedly has the Foundation classes working (but not AppKit). So that means, if you don't care about the GUI portion, that any code you write using the Cocoa foundation classes can be ported to Windows, giving you a pretty good support library. That's assuming the Gnustep foundation classes have good compatibility with Cocoa, I don't have any direct experience with it myself.

Having worked with both GNUstep and Cocoa, I can say with confidence, that for the most part, they're source compatible. I've only worked with GNUstep on Linux, though. There are a few minor differences, but you can create source that'll compile on either with ease. The biggest difference is, of course, in the AppKit. So, if you were just using Foundation for cross-platform stuff, I guess you could target Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

James
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