Hi,
did you get my reply? I get a mailer error when replying to your mail,
apparently it thinks my email is spam.
Riccardo
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
if you relax the "C++" option and accept "Objective-C", then GNUstep
fits perfectly.
It works very well on Linux, FreeBSD and I'd say (Sebastian correct
me) that NetBSD and OpenBSD are now up to the same level. OpenBSD
packages are good.
AppKit is just excellent in terms of UI design and handling. I am
using it from graphical visualization to SOAP tools that extract Data
from the cloud!
Solaris support is ongoing in case and if you work inside the GNustep
implemented APIs, a 100% native port to Mac/Cocoa is really easy.
There is also more limited but working Windows support. The APIs work
very well, so while you are able to stay insider their abstraction,
portability to windows can be realy a matter of little more than
recompilation.
I can provide examples of tri-platform examples (GS-Mac-Win) ranging
from RSS readers, FTP clients to Games to drawing & imaging programs.
Porting to iOS (and even Android with Apportable) is not automatic,
but you will have done a good part of the job already.
GNUstep is perhaps not the hype, but has been around many years and it
will be for the next.
Riccardo
