Re: gnustep / solaris only? / win32 - cygnwin / steptalk vs Fscript / darwin/x86 vs vmware

[Adam Fedor]

david faibish wrote:
> 1b) is there no prospect for a a native win32 implemetation? ... it is 
> completely absent from your how2 list - 
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/GNUstep-HOWTO

MinGW/MSYS is probably as native as we'll get, since we need to use gcc. 
This is a pretty good combo since it leaves you libraries free of any 
copyright restrictions.

The GUI part is still pretty alpha though.


> 1c) why is the cygwin-xfree/86 release described as (especially) 
> unstable ... while ALL the other platforms dont seem to have this problem?

There are several that are unstable. Cygwin isn't especially so 
(although we prefer MingW). Perhaps I should divide it more into, 
unstable and "not tested often". Cygwin is in the latter category.


> 1d) i saw a reference on one of the gnustep related sites to vmware -- 
> but not sure where that url is, and not sure if it was for bsd/x86 as a 
> host or target -- could you please clarify?

I think that was where we got NeXT/OPENSTEP running on vmware so we 
could do some testing on caompatibility. I could probably find the 
reference if you want more info.

> 2) your site is this first one i have seen to mention a native scripting 
> language (steptalk) for objectiveC ... up until now, i thought only 
> FScript was the only native scripting language
>
> 3a) is anyone giving some thought to packaging a distro (installer, 
> configuration manager, GCC compiler/make/link etc, the IDE, userland 
> apps, etc) that is a "simple" as some of the better linux distros? ... 

You can look at

http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/

Also, debian probably has the most complete set of GNUstep packages. We 
probably should emphasize this more though.


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