Re: NeXT GNU Homage Project Work

[Maxthon Chan]

Sorry…

If this is the case then I would suggest those AppKit and UIKit enhances, sort 
of bringing GNUstep up to speed with OS X:

1) Storyboards. This is how Xcode arrange user interfaces now.
2) QuartzCore and WIndowServer based on Wayland and EGL. This will replace 
Window Maker with a higher performance interface engine, and replace 
gnustep-back entirely. (“windowmaker-wayland” is a Wayland-only compositor that 
have the OS X look and feel, “gnustep-qe” implements QuartzCore API using 
Wayland and EGL, and gnustep-gui rewritten to use gnustep-qe instead of 
gnustep-back)
3) Metal, which can be mapped to Vulcan(“gnustep-metal-vulcan”), Mantle (for 
AMD cards, “gnustep-metal-mantle”) or CUDA (for nVIDIA cards, 
“gnustep-metal-cuda”)
4) SceneKit and SpriteKit, both can be implemented on top of Metal.
5) loginwindow (which is necessary in building a complete desktop experience)

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:13, Luboš Doležel <lubos@dolezel.info> wrote:
> 
> Dne 16.11.2015 v 07:56 Maxthon Chan napsal(a):
>> How about this - a bit of endeavour in kernel space, Linux-as-XNU:
>> 
>> 1) A kernel module that implement XNU kernel’s syscalls in Linux kernel
>> 2) A Mach-O dynamic loader for Linux that can work with binfmt_misc
>> 3) A port of basic OS X libraries that takes advantage of this interface
>> 
>> This will allow OS X apps and Linux apps work under one single, modified 
>> Linux kernel.
>> 
> You have precisely described what Darling is doing, more specifically in its 
> current rework ("darling-libsystem" branch).
> 
> 1) The kernel module is called darling-mach. But it also implements some very 
> special BSD syscalls used on OS X (e.g. bsdthread_terminate or 
> psynch_mutexwait).
> 2) libdyld/dyld
> 3) I'm gradually adding various libs present in OS X to the build. The latest 
> additions are gnustep-base and gnustep-corebase.
> 
> But that has very little to do with "NeXT" discussed in this thread ;-)
> 
> Luboš
> 
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