Re: Cross platform development
Re: Cross platform development
- Subject: Re: Cross platform development
- From: Tom Sutcliffe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:35:43 +0100
Or how about this: Is there a market for someone to write
equivalents of all the Cocoa libraries under windows, (perhaps making
use of whatever libraries windows has if it makes it any easier)?
-> http://www.gnustep.org (primarly for Linux / BSD but also for
Windows...)
But one of the main bonuses of developing cocoa is how easy the tools
are to use, and you lose that instantly here. I downloaded gnustep a
while ago on a windows box and thought "Great. Now what do I do now?"
And the answer was complicated enough to make me give up. As I recall
the fact that I had to first download a compiler and a million
libraries had something to do with it.
That said, there's nothing really to prevent gnustep producing a
windows-compatible version of cocoa that is really easy to use and
works like a charm. But I don't think they have or will.
I don't mean any disrespect to them, (the ease of use and number of
downloads complaints are indicative of many cooperative software
efforts) but since gnustep's focus isn't 100% on trying to clone cocoa,
if they do it will be incidental to having produced an excellent
openstep implementation.
Cheers,
Tom
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