Re: GNUstep on 10.7

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 8 Oct 2011, at 15:48, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> Nat,
> 
> You seem to be forcing a political discussion where none was intended
> by drawing an unwarranted conclusion from my statement.  I certainly
> do put an extremely high value Software Freedom, that is not why I'm
> wondering.
> 
> The reason why I'm wondering is that this is the equivalent of
> implementing WINE on Windows.
> 
> I made sure to say that I'm not saying it shouldn't or won't happen.
> I was just curious.


Hi Greg, I think you misread the original post in this thread ...

> On Sunday, August 28, 2011, artware <artware@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone have a handle on libPerformance? My compile is getting
> > hung op on line 117 of GSCache.m:
> > #define my ((item *)&self[1])

The original question was about using libPerformance on OSX (one of a few 
libraries I've written. ad a few others have contributed to, primarily for 
server process work, and contributed to the FSF).
This was not about using the GNUstep core libraries.

Now you might well want to use libPerformance with the Apple Foundation if you 
want to write a better program on Cocoa, since it contains functionality Apple 
don't provide.

In fact, you might well want to build base with the Apple Foundation (in which 
case it should just build the base additions library) for the extra classes we 
provide which are not available normally on OSX.

And of course, if you want to build these libraries for use on OSX, would also 
want to install gnustep-make (to build them).

So in fact there are good technical reasons to want to build most parts of 
GNUstep on OSX even if you intend to use the Apple native runtime and 
Foundation frameworks, and this is what the original poster was asking about.

I don't own a copy of OSX 10.7, but perhaps I should buy one in order to port 
at least the non-gui parts of GNUstep to it.