On 2008-06-12 16:30:31 +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald
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On 11 Jun 2008, at 16:12, Michael Hopkins rm-this wrote:
Hi all
A couple of questions:
1) Can I use gnustep-make on Linux with colormake or clmake to
colourise the output during builds? If so, how? Have googled and
looked through the docs but I can find but no hints there. I suspect
it would just be changing 'make' -> 'clmake' somewhere in the bowels
of the GNUstep directory hierarchy. Also, how to I set the default
level of warnings (i.e. turn off those annoying "warning: multi-line
comment").
I'm afraid I don't know colormake and am not familiar with that
warning, so I can't help on this one.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/hardy/colormake
http://bre.klaki.net/programs/colormake/
but I am wondering about things like:
- is libgnustep-base (& libobjc) maintained now & into the future? On
both linux
and Win32?
Yes.
- is it of an overall quality to be trusted for enterprise use
Yes... and has been used in the that context for several years.
and if not where
are the glitches at the moment?
N/A
This is great news and I would like to thank all who have contributed
to making it possible for others to use and rely on the excellent
Foundation API on so many platforms.
- is it likely in the near future (or ever) that Objective-C 2.0
language support
will be provided? Mainly interested in the syntax changes like @properties,
@synthesize, fast enumeration (which I suspect gcc 4.3 will mainly support)
rather than garbage collection which I am unlikely to use.
AFAIK, while some people have expressed an interest in part of it,
nobody is working on that ... but I'm not sure. i don't think many
people like the syntax changes, so I guess we are more likely to see
more popular/useful features (like non-fragile instance variables) in
the near future.
There have also been a few other contributions to the thread regarding
these issues. If adding the key features that don't require access to
the Apple runtime is not too burdensome then I think it will be a
helpful to future users - and possibly necessary in terms of keeping
compatibility with the Mac codebase.
M
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