Re: CrystaX and GNUstep

[Germán Arias]

El jue, 26-03-2015 a las 01:47 -0400, Gregory Casamento escribió:
> 
> 
> 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 
> 

He know GNUstep. See (section 4 "Objective-C support"):

https://www.crystax.net/en/android/ndk/7

Germán