Re: UIKit

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 28 Jun 2011, at 18:10, David Chisnall wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> At the FOSDEM this year we decided to start a GNUsep sub project to
>> implement UIKit. And just a few weeks later we learned about UIKit:
>> 
>> http://chameleonproject.org/
>> 
>> This made us stop our own efforts in this direction. I think nobody ever
>> tried to use this code on top of GNUstep gui and you will need the missing
>> bit CoreAnimation for this. But implementing that should be easier than an
>> full UIKit implementation.
> 
> Did it?  I'm still interested in a proper UIKit implementation - Cameleon is 
> not really equivalent, and is less interesting - I just haven't had time to 
> work on it.  
> 
> I think lack of people with both time and inclination to work on UIKit is 
> more to blame than the existence of Cameleon.

I agree ... I'm still interested but I really haven't had any time to do 
anything.
Realistically, this is a project for which we need a lot of *new* talent ... 
people with the time to do the work ... but I believe we'd all make the time to 
help/advise any team who come forward.