Re: Cocoa Rules - ObjC "evalgelism"
Re: Cocoa Rules - ObjC "evalgelism"
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Rules - ObjC "evalgelism"
- From: Alex Perez <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 13:16:15 -0700
Jim Witte wrote:
That raises an interesting question: since ObjC is basically only
used on the Mac (as it was basically only used on the Next before
OSX), and since Windows-compatible Cocoa libraries look like a real
pipe dream, is there a need for "Objective-C evalgelism"?
From a purely technical, nitpicky point of view, it's correct, but your
statement is only half-true, because the GNUstep Foundation (we call it
Base), which is at version 1.9.1, works marvelously under windows and is
extremely similar to Cocoa's Foundation. And it's quite stable. There
are some known thread-related issues WRT GNUstep under Windows but those
are being fixed even as I write this, and once they're tested
extensively will make it into GNUstep CVS in the very near future.
See:
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/windows/Install-GNUstep-Development-Environment-0.5.1-1.9.1.exe
The GNustep community is involved in ObjC evangelism probably even more
than the OS X community is (having participated in both, I think this is
an accurate statement), because ObjC and OS X go together by default,
while on other OSes such as Linux, Solaris, Free/Net/OpenBSD, there are
a plethora of other choices.
Cheers,
Alex Perez
GNUstep.org co-maintainer
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