Re: Windows and GnuStep

[Sheldon Gill]

Jason Clouse wrote:
> On 2006-02-03 15:57:28 -0500 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I agree ... it's sad and it's not how I would have read it, but it  
> > seems it needs clarification.
> >
> > Perhaps it's worth saying that while it's perfectly possible to write 
> > applications which are portable to windows, at least 90% of  
> > applications have been written solely for portability across unix  
> > platforms.
>
> Also, you can't build your application on a Mac, copy the source to a 
> Linux box, and simply type "make".  Which is probably what a lot of Mac 
> devs are thinking when they think of portability.  A lot of people seem 
> to use the Core* frameworks and mixtures of Cocoa and Carbon.

This is very true. Quite understandable once you realise the number of things 
you *can't* do in Cocoa and so *have* to fall back to Carbon.


Regards,
Sheldon