nanogui: GnuStep port to nano-X
Subject:
Re: GnuStep port to nano-X
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
14 May 2001 20:09:58 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10105142051280.1115-100000@hyperspace.linuxhacker.org>
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Robert E. Hartley wrote:
> I wondered the same thing for the longest time. I eventually found it via the
> GnuStep site.
That looks like a significant improvement over the old Next ObjC
reference. It's no K&R, but then what other language reference is? ;)
> > I don't know, how many MacOS X applications are likely to be useful
> > on a PDA?
> About the same number as Windows apps, hence MicroWindows.
Not quite since there's no MacOS X equivalent of Wince.
> I figured that a nice OOP language like objC plus an OpenStep API would
> be good for widgets, since it provides much of the handiness and
> elegance of Java with the speed of C in a time tested API like the one
> used on NeXT.
It might well be nice. I haven't really looked at Gnustep. Is it based
around a Display Postscript engine, or does it somehow translate the
OpenStep calls directly into Xlib calls? How big/slow do you think it
would be and how much work do you think it would take to port?
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