Re: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

[andy.somogyi]

In my opinion, I think Cocoa compatibility is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to  
GNUStep.

It is on the basis of Cocoa compatibility that I managed to convince  
my department
that Cocoa / GNUStep should be the way to go for our development  
needs. We need
application  framework that is compatible with Mac / Linux.

So far, most of the stuff I have developed does not make heavy use of  
GUI features,
mostly they just draw to image surfaces, and draw these to a NSView.  
Much of the
new stuff we work on uses NSOpenGLView, but I have not tried this on  
Linux yet.

We also used GNUStep / Linux on a daily basis because our XGrid  
cluster consists
mostly of Linux boxes (as compute nodes, they are cheaper than Macs),  
and make
extensive use of the GNUStep / Objective-C classes on the Linux  
compute nodes.

If the GNUStep team decides that we do not need Cocoa compatibility,  
then I have
a lot of explaining to do.

Anyway, I think developing new features not in Cocoa is great,  
provided that they
are implemented as libraries which can be used with Cocoa. This is  
one reason
why I think Objective C categories are so nice.

Without GNUStep Cocoa compatibility, we would have to go to some  
truly nasty
(relative to Cocoa) libraries like ugh, QT, ugh.


On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Vaisburd, Haim wrote:

> From: Nicolas Roard [mailto:nicolas.roard@gmail.com]
>
> > > - what do we really gain from compatibility?
>
> > But there's also apps like Vienna or Sketch we ported
> > straight from OSX to GNUstep/etoile, apps that fabien
> > ported too (MPlayer, etc), and I forget others.
> > And there's as usual all the apps that people don't report
> > about (eg I wrote some custom apps for my research that work
> > on OSX and on GNUstep straight away, and I was very thankful
> > to have GNUstep for that).
>
> Then I have to admit my mistake - I thought Mac OSX compatibility
> had very limited usage.
>
> --Tima
>
>
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