On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:35, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:16, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wouldn't say that Chameleon went wrong, it just doesn't have the same
>> goals as a GNUstep UIKit implementation.  Chameleon's goal is to allow you
>> to embed iOS applications in OS X applications.  A UIKit implementation for
>> GNUstep would have the goal of running iOS applications on other platforms.
>>
>> This difference means that there are some design choices that I wouldn't
>> want to make the same way as Chameleon.  In particular, their event model is
>> - by necessity - layered on top of AppKit's model, while UIKit has a much
>> richer model for gestures and multitouch events, which most iOS code uses.
>>
>
> Then I'm all for implementing UIKit. I wanted to do something like that --
> I have UIKit-heavy code that would be interesting to see on platforms such
> as N900 or even Android, but you probably don't really want me to start
> working on anything _very_ important related to this (including
> CoreAnimation). Most of all because I tend to take long breaks between
> working on stuff, and because it would probably be somewhat sloppy and miss
> some important detail in the base of the subsystem :)
>
> By the way, did you intentionally drop the list address from the 'To'
> field? If not, please forward my reply to the list.
> --
> Ivan Vučica
> [email protected]
>

...just posting the off-list  discussion

-- 
Ivan Vučica
[email protected]
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