Re: No Java Version of Swarm is planned!

[Scott Christley]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> 
> The target is to provide a version of Swarm that does not require X.
> It will still require Objective C.  And I believe it will require GNU
> Objective C.  This means that it's unlikely that the version of Swarm
> that uses a Java GUI will run on the Macintosh operating system.  (If
> there's a version of GNU ObjC for Mac, let's hear about it.)  Of
> course, this doesn't mean you can't run it on your PPC machine.... as
> long as you use MkLinux (or some other PPC compatible unix) as your
> operating system.

I believe there is a company, Tenon?, that ported GCC/ObjC to the Mac;
they supposedly even got an earlier version of gnustep-base to work.  The
new Rhapsody is based upon NeXT technology and that is the GNU compiler
(though a heavily modified one).  What would be good to check is if Swarm
works with the NeXT runtime because then the whole powerful development
environment becomes available; I've been meaning to try this but haven't
found the time, as usual! ;-)

Scott


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