On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote: [SNIP] > Hi Greg, I think you misread the original post in this thread ...
I realized I did soon after I hit "send" but it was already too late at that point. > The original question was about using libPerformance on OSX (one of a few > libraries I've written. ad a few others have contributed to, primarily for > server process work, and contributed to the FSF). > This was not about using the GNUstep core libraries. > > Now you might well want to use libPerformance with the Apple Foundation if > you want to write a better program on Cocoa, since it contains functionality > Apple don't provide. > > In fact, you might well want to build base with the Apple Foundation (in > which case it should just build the base additions library) for the extra > classes we provide which are not available normally on OSX. > > And of course, if you want to build these libraries for use on OSX, would > also want to install gnustep-make (to build them). > > So in fact there are good technical reasons to want to build most parts of > GNUstep on OSX even if you intend to use the Apple native runtime and > Foundation frameworks, and this is what the original poster was asking about. > > I don't own a copy of OSX 10.7, but perhaps I should buy one in order to port > at least the non-gui parts of GNUstep to it. > Yes, I understand and that does make perfect sense. I had originally thought that the purpose was to get core working on 10.7 which I didn't see the point of even though I wouldn't object to it. Apologies for the misunderstanding on my part. Later, GC -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
