Re: Abiword/GNUStep ?

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Roman Belenov wrote:
> 
> > Did anyone consider making GNUStep frontend to ABiword ? Since they have
> Cocoa
> > version under development, it should be doable - it would be a nice
> addition
> > to GNUstep app collection and good testbed for libraries.
> 
> Yes, I've had discussions with Hubert on this specific issue, and the 
> blocker at this point is ObjC++ support in GCC, which AbiCocoa requires. 
> This will be in GCC 4.0, so whenever GCC 4.0 is out, work on the actual 
> porting can begin.
> 
> Until ObjC++ support is in GCC, it's a pipe dream.

Theoretically, a C "bridge" could be created for the classes in C++ and those C
functions and structs could be used from ObjC, but it's more trouble than it's
worth.

> Cheers,
> Alex Perez

Please note that I am not volunteering for the above, but I am simply pointing
out that it *is* possible, it's just a royal pain in the posterior to do. ;)

GJC

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Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A Maryland Corporation)
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.