Re: Objc++ support in gcc

[Chris B . Vetter]

On 08 May 2002 19:34:43 -0400
Jay McCarthy <jay@kenyamountain.com> wrote:
> Back in December I was working on this and you can get the patches from
> my website (see the bottom of this mail,) however there are some
> caveats: the patches on my site are not the latest, the patches an my
> site are for the 1999 OPENSTEP versions of the OmniFrameworks - and the
> OmniGroup would prefer the Mac OS X versions to be used. As a result of
> this my patches don't completely work. The OPENSTEP ported version would
> compile (however some compat functions were not implemented) and the Mac
> OS X won't because I haven't finished my .pbxproj -> GNUstep Makefiles
> tool (which works in 90% of the situations... if you are interested in
> when it doesn't work I can explain it, but one of those situations is
> very common in the OmniGroup's pbx projects.)
> Since January I haven't done any work on the converter or the ports
> (because of school) but this is my last week of school so I might be
> starting again shortly on this issue.

Omni Group recently changed their source distribution from .tgz
to .dmg ... even if 'patches' for GNUstep are provided, you will have
a hard time finding an archiver for that outside the Apple world.
(I may be wrong here, but I couldn't find any so far)

An alternative would be to either convince them to switch back to sth.
like .tgz (or offer both, .dmg and .tgz) or put the framework under
gnustep-dev-libs, though Omni Group will probably object the latter.

Of course, another alternative would be Chimera...

-- 
Chris