Andy, Allow me to make it clear:
* The GNUstep Project is committed to Cocoa compatibility. Period. You have nothing to fear on that front. Later, GJC -- Gregory CasamentoGNUstep Chief Maintainer/Gorm Maintainer ----- Original Message ---- From: andy.somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discuss GNUstep <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:47:30 PM Subject: Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace) In my opinion, I think Cocoa compatibility is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to GNUStep. It is on the basis of Cocoa compatibility that I managed to convince my department that Cocoa / GNUStep should be the way to go for our development needs. We need application framework that is compatible with Mac / Linux. So far, most of the stuff I have developed does not make heavy use of GUI features, mostly they just draw to image surfaces, and draw these to a NSView. Much of the new stuff we work on uses NSOpenGLView, but I have not tried this on Linux yet. We also used GNUStep / Linux on a daily basis because our XGrid cluster consists mostly of Linux boxes (as compute nodes, they are cheaper than Macs), and make extensive use of the GNUStep / Objective-C classes on the Linux compute nodes. If the GNUStep team decides that we do not need Cocoa compatibility, then I have a lot of explaining to do. Anyway, I think developing new features not in Cocoa is great, provided that they are implemented as libraries which can be used with Cocoa. This is one reason why I think Objective C categories are so nice. Without GNUStep Cocoa compatibility, we would have to go to some truly nasty (relative to Cocoa) libraries like ugh, QT, ugh. On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Vaisburd, Haim wrote: > From: Nicolas Roard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> - what do we really gain from compatibility? > >> But there's also apps like Vienna or Sketch we ported >> straight from OSX to GNUstep/etoile, apps that fabien >> ported too (MPlayer, etc), and I forget others. >> And there's as usual all the apps that people don't report >> about (eg I wrote some custom apps for my research that work >> on OSX and on GNUstep straight away, and I was very thankful >> to have GNUstep for that). > > Then I have to admit my mistake - I thought Mac OSX compatibility > had very limited usage. > > --Tima > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
