Re: GNUstep on 10.7

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> 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.
>
>    
I think running libPerformance on MacOSX has some very good reasons, you 
need it for our excellent Webservices Kit which, for example, is a 
dependency of DataBasin and I do imagine that several people might want 
to run DataBasin on Mac, in fact, much more than GNUstep.

Well, of course we may think that Nat's original post and especially the 
Subject were quite deceiving... saying "GNUstep on 10.7".

Another interesting thing would be GNUstep on pure Darwin... but that's 
another thing again.


Riccardo