On Tuesday June 02 2015 14:34:09 Ian Wadham wrote: >Watch out for the "evolutionary" changes in Cocoa/OSX/ObjectiveC across >successive versions of OS X !!! I was particularly having problems figuring >out
+++ ObjC would be a great language if it weren't so tightly coupled to an OS :-/ Which also raises the question back to what OS you want to support with a GUI written with native APIs that are not AppleScript or something similar... > - Dynamic storage management (DIY vs. garbage-collect vs. > reference-counting), AFAIU this has actually become easier with the introduction of ARC, and applications that were written correctly require little change. > - The GUI designer (Interface Builder) and its relationships (or links) to > generated > and hand-written chunks of code. That is one piece of RTFM software that proves itself each time I have to use it every once in a blue moon. Sadly I have to add Xcode itself to that category since it became an all-integrated Große Bertha that rivals Eclipse :( Actually, MacPorts is a clone or descendant of BSD port, no? Isn't there a BSD variant (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, ...) that already developed a GUI interface to the CLI command that could be ported (and not necessarily to Cocoa). R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
