Re: GNUstep on 10.7

[David Chisnall]

On 8 Oct 2011, at 12:40, Nat! wrote:

> 
> Am 07.10.2011 um 23:24 schrieb Gregory Casamento:
>> 
>> What I was particularly wondering about is why try to get GNUstep to
>> work on Mac OS X since the Mac has it's own implementation of GNUstep
>> it's called "Cocoa."
> 
> Which is closed-source and non-free. If you don't put a value on these
> two properties, then yes I can see, why you are wondering.

But no more non-Free than most of the rest of OS X.  If you're targeting OS X, 
then you've already decided that using non-Free software is acceptable.  It 
therefore makes sense to use the implementation of the frameworks that is 
better tested and supported on this platform.

If you want to run your code on other platforms, then it makes more sense to 
use GNUstep.  If you care about software freedom, then you should write your 
code on GNUstep and then port it to Cocoa, because that will ensure that you 
don't use any of the APIs that aren't supported by the Free Software 
implementation.  

> But I find it just a little bizarre to read this on a FSF-mailing list 
> from the maintainer of said FSF-project. I thought freedom is the core
> value of the Free Software Foundation. 

So what would you want the reply to be?  The answer to the question of how to 
run GNUstep on OS X should be 'uninstall OS X, install HURD, and use GNUstep 
there'?  

David

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