On 15 Okt., 00:25, Gary Dumer <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly what is GNUStep used for? > > Here's what I can figure out: > > 1. It's not an operating system. > > 2. It's not a GUI builder. > > 3. It includes Objective-C as its main application building tool. > > 4. It has some really ugly, retro looking apps (Gorm... etc.) for developing > programs. > > What I'd like to know: > > 1. Is it designed to promote Objective-C? > > 2. If it does not produce GUI apps, how were Gorm... etc. produced? > > 3. Is it mainly for Linux and Windows? > > 4. Is it necessary to use GNUStep and its libraries or may I just write ObjC > apps using GCC? > > The website doesn't do a very good job of introducing potential new users to > the true purpose and use of GNUStep. > > So I repeat... What is GNUStep used for?
You can see GNUstep as the "Standard Obj-C Libraries (+ some tools)" in a similar way as libc for C, C++ Standard Library for C++, J2SE/GNU classpath for JAVA, etc. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
