Re: Cocotron used for a real-world app

[Helge Hess]

On 30.10.2008, at 14:09, Nicola Pero wrote:
> Possibly.  But then they will need to install a virtual machine  
> anyway to test the Windows port ...

Just for clarification: this is *much* less trouble than described.  
All OSX VMs can expose the local OSX folders to Windows, they even  
allow calling Windows apps from inside OSX! (eg I think you can  
configure Parallels to open Word documents using Windows Word if you  
double click a file).

So the workflow is as simple as 'build in Xcode', then run it. No need  
to install or 'copy' anything to test builds. I suppose you could even  
perform the 'run' phase from inside Xcode (not sure whether there is  
something like open-in-parallels <path>).

Additionally the build system of Xcode is quite a bit faster, can  
distribute the builds and is more convenient (if you are an OSX  
developer). (personally I still prefer makefiles, but someone used to  
Xcode won't understand why he should use them ...)

BTW: cross builds are done all the time on OSX, even just for MacOS.  
Eg you can build 10.3 binaries on 10.5, or PPC/FAT binaries. Not to  
mention iPhone applications - which you can even *debug* and profile  
remotely using Xcode! I assume this (debug/profile) could also be made  
possible with Cocotron.

But hey, I still like GNUstep make better ;-) And I would *love* to be  
able to easily build (regular) Windows binaries on MacOS w/o switching  
to Windows.

Greets,
  Helge
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