[Liberty-eiffel] GNUstep

[Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH]

Hi Germán,

 

GNUstep certainly looks nice!   That other proposal of yours (EiffelFOX) also looks nice and would have the advantage that a lot work is done already....  It would be a matter of adapting the wrapper to the latest version of both the compiler and the FOX Toolkit.  Also, FOX seems to be more open-minded towards non-*NIX operating systems as well...

Having said that, perhaps it would be better to put EiffelFOX on an entirely new foundation by using plugins, at least so if this project is going to be ressurected?

 

Cheers

Hans

 

> From: Germ?n Arias <address@hidden>
> To: Liberty <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Liberty-eiffel] GNUstep toolkit for Liberty
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> Hi all,
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> How difficult would be provide an external to ObjC? I'm thinking Liberty can use GNUstep [1] toolkit to gui applications. The API of gnustep is consistent and with minor changes, not like GTK. gnustep provide a framework called Renaissance [2] to generate platform independent interfaces, from a file with xml format. On Windows, GNU/Linux and BSD this use GNUstep, on Mac use Cocoa (assuming Liberty runs on Mac). I descarte previously this option, because didn't know about the externals.
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> You can see some screenshots about gnustep appearance in Gnome at [3] (since most people don't like the default look and feel of gnustep).
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> Germ?n.
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> [1] http://www.gnustep.org/
> [2] http://www.gnustep.it/Renaissance/index.html
> [3] http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Silver.theme
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