By that I mean #1... #2 and #3 will never happen. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > See my postings regarding this almost a year ago. :) GNUstep should > absolutely support swift. > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would suggest that we should embrace ourselves for the impact of Apple >> open sourcing Swift, and adapt the GNUstep environment to take advantage of, >> or serve as a host of, the Swift 2.0 environment. >> >> There are several possibilities in Apple open sourcing Swift, given its >> tight ties to Cocoa: >> >> 1) The Swift for Linux uses a different library and does not support >> Objective-C interoperability at all. This would be a bummer and we cannot >> cooperate with it. >> 2) Apple would submit a big patch set to one of the open source Cocoa >> reimplementation (including GNUstep) to bring it up to speed with Apple, and >> build Swift for Linux on top of that. If we are the receiving end of the >> patch set it would be a tremendous opportunity for us. >> 3) Apple open source their own Cocoa implementation to support Swift for >> Linux. We can then take advantage of that and start adapt GNUstep as a patch >> or additions to Cocoa for Linux. >> >> Max >> >>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:36, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Interesting idea, I hope I got it right: >>> Would using linux-libre for "the" GNUstep (or NeXtStep) OS be >>> appropriate? >>> Could base it on one of these: >>> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html >>> >>> -- >>> Svetlana A. Tkachenko >>> Member of the Free Software Foundation >>> www.fsf.org www.gnu.org www.freenode.net >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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