Re: GNUStep compatability
Re: GNUStep compatability
- Subject: Re: GNUStep compatability
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:43:22 -0700
On 8/8/01 2:27 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Is Apple making any efforts to aid the GNUStep project? This project, if kept
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completely compatible could really expand support for Cocoa. This idea of
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cross-platform development would entise any developer, and GNUStep is
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cross-platform and Cocoa is not. Also, since GNUStep is cross-platform,
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whether or not it is as stable as Cocoa, it will take the lead in use by
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developers and grow and develop (eventually) separately from Cocoa soley
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because it is cross-platfrom. In my oppinion, I think that Apple should take
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the lead in this project and help maintain it and support it so that there is
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firm compatability. This could make Cocoa a cross-platform standard much like
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OpenGL. Its now or never and in the future, Cocoa won't have a chance against
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a very similar cross-platform API that has veered off course.
Someone on /. Said that Apple and FSF are engaged in such a pissing contest
that FSF won't even check in Apple's bug fixes to ObjC.
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That's not true. It's not a complex.