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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