Q's about GNUstep (-make & -base)

[Michael Hopkins]

Hi all

A couple of questions:

1) Can I use gnustep-make on Linux with colormake or clmake to 
colourise the output during builds?  If so, how?  Have googled and 
looked through the docs but I can find but no hints there.  I suspect 
it would just be changing 'make' -> 'clmake' somewhere in the bowels of 
the GNUstep directory hierarchy.  Also, how to I set the default level 
of warnings (i.e. turn off those annoying "warning: multi-line 
comment").

2) A more general question about code quality and portability of 
gnustep-base.  I am just embarking on a project to port a bunch of 
Obj-C/Cocoa code from Mac 10.5 to GNUstep on amd64 Linux 
(Debian/Ubuntu) and Win32 (with MSYS/MingW etc) using appropriate 
GNstep makefiles.  No GUI, just using Foundation classes.

Going very well so far, except for some classes differing between Cocoa 
Foundation & gnustep-base (btw, is there a document listing the 
differences anywhere?), but I am wondering about things like:

 - is libgnustep-base (& libobjc) maintained now & into the future?  
On both linux
   and Win32?

 - is it of an overall quality to be trusted for enterprise use and if 
not where
   are the glitches at the moment?

 - is it likely in the near future (or ever) that Objective-C 2.0 
language support
   will be provided?  Mainly interested in the syntax changes like 
@properties,
   @synthesize, fast enumeration (which I suspect gcc 4.3 will mainly support)
   rather than garbage collection which I am unlikely to use.

Thanks in advance

Michael

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