I did see some references to ninja in the bits I glanced over. If it can generate Ninja build files, then that might be a better bet. I'm using Ninja for a few things, and it's pretty nice.
David On 12 Aug 2012, at 14:55, Gregory Casamento wrote: > The benefits of porting TextMate would be largely political. It would be > something nice to point to and say "yeah, that works." > > I looked at the code myself and agree with both of your conclusions. I was > disappointed that it didn't just use the "standard" tools since there's a > possibility that buildtool might have been able to handle it if it had. > > GC > > On Sunday, August 12, 2012, David Chisnall wrote: > On 12 Aug 2012, at 12:45, Fred Kiefer wrote: > > > On 12.08.2012 00:04, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: > >> Did you see this? The most advanced text editor for OS X just got open > >> sourced! > >> > >> https://github.com/textmate/textmate > >> > >> http://macromates.com/ > > > > > > I had a look after that software was mentioned on the Heise news ticker. > > The functionality seems great but the code itself is a lot of C++ and > > Objective-C++. Nothing I would be interested in getting supported on > > GNUstep. > > Ah, you found the code. I had a look, but it seemed to be a massive tangle > of frameworks, and I gave up looking for the relevant parts. A lot of people > seem to like TextMate, so it might be nice to have a decent port. > Objective-C++ is fine - LanguageKit uses Objective-C++ and it works nicely > with GNUstep, but the build system for TextMate looks like it would be a lot > of work to port. > > David > > -- Sent from my Cray X1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > http://www.gnustep.org > http://heronsperch.blogspot.com -- Sent from my IBM 1620 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
