Re: Plans for ahead

[Gregory Casamento]

By that I mean #1... #2 and #3 will never happen.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Gregory Casamento
<greg.casamento@gmail.com> 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 <xcvista@me.com> 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 <svetlana@members.fsf.org> 
>>> 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
>>>
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> Gregory Casamento
> GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant
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