Re: Cross platform development
Re: Cross platform development
- Subject: Re: Cross platform development
- From: Pete French <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:37:05 +0100
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So? Develop on OS X, port to gnustep. There will be some pain
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involved, but it will be limited, and if you learn something, your code
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should remain portable (and new code either is good already or will be
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so very quickly).
ACtually I find the other way round is easier - there are some rough
edges to GNUstep, so if you program round those then it is boudn to work
properly on Cocoa. As for cross-platform tools there are equivalents to
PB and IB under GNustep if you like working that way. The only annoyance
is the non-portability of the .nib files across systems. Even that can
be nicely solved by a set of liubraries that let you write interface code
in a similar way to HTML pages (with tags representing objects).
I develop all my code this wauy. I can type 'make' on my Open SOurce
boxs, and take the same source and type 'make' on an OSX box and get a working
app on both with no source code changes at all. I;ve never looked back
really. The OSX ones have an aqua look and feel, the UNIX ones have a
NeXT look and feel. Its very and an extremely productive way to develop cross
platform applications.
Oh, and dont forget there is also a beta version of GNustep running
under Windows. Write once, run anywhere... ;-)
-bat.
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