Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
- Subject: Re: itunes for windows HOWTO ???
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:06:20 +1100
A better option for my
situation would be a Cocoa development environment for
MS Windows.
I think so far the only game in town is Gnustep.org -- but I've never
used it.
Important notes for GnuStep:
* There's no native Windows version - you'll have to use Cygwin or
Linux. So it's of no help to the original poster.
* It's (apparently) unstable on Darwin.
* It's incomplete (but improving all the time).
* It's not based on Cocoa, but rather the much older OpenStep spec from
NeXT's days. Any Cocoa stuff which makes it in is purely coincidental.
* (Last I looked) it had very little GUI stuff available, so again,
it's probably not entirely suited to the original poster's requirements
* They sometimes deviate and do things their own way, because they feel
the OpenStep method is not good enough (which may be the case, but
still, lost compatibility...)
* They sometimes can get lazy and don't do things "properly" (e.g.
their Distributed Objects implementation works differently to Apple's,
for better or worse)
The code also seems to be a bit messy in a lot of places. This isn't a
criticism as such - I wrote my own versions of some of the GnuStep
stuff and couldn't get an elegant solution either, but it's a warning
that it may not be entirely stable by virtue of poor design &
implementation.
Also note that since it's GPL'd, you might have trouble using it in
your program, unless you too adopt the GPL.
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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