Re: CrystaX and GNUstep

[Gregory Casamento]

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> El jue, 26-03-2015 a las 00:15 -0400, Gregory Casamento escribió:
> > German
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> >         Some weeks ago I tried to install gnustep-base on CrystaX [1]
> >         However
> >         the support for Objective-C is not complete. But CrystaX has
> >         been
> >         started a fundraising campaign [2] and one of its goal is
> >         provide a
> >         complete support for Objective-C and (depending of the
> >         collected money)
> >         frameworks like CoreData and CoreGraphics. If that campaign is
> >         successful, it can also be great for GNUstep.
> >
> >         Germán
> >
> >         [1] https://www.crystax.net/en
> >         [2] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/crystaxndk/fundraiser
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm not a naysayer and what he's planning sounds beneficial.
> >
> >
> > His fundraiser doesn't seem to mention GNUstep.  Is he thinking about
> > implementing these Cocoa compatible frameworks without leveraging
> > GNUstep?
>
> I think yes, but if they offers full support for Objective-C we will be
> able to install GNUstep (at least gnustep-base) on CrystaX with the
> advantage that libcrystax offers all functionalities missed on libc of
> android (Bionic).
>
> Germán.
>
> >
> > GC
> >

I guess I'm confused.  Why do people think implementing it themselves is the shorter path to success?  Does he not know about GNUstep?  I admit I was amused at the one month estimate for implementing a Cocoa compatible Foundation. 

GC 

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