Re: GNUstep on Hackernews

[Gregory Casamento]

Hugo,

Yes, I know this.   The point is that between Foundation and AppKit, almost all of the classes and methods which were missing (up to 10.15) have been written by myself and others over the last few years.   

We have a CoreData, and CoreGraphics (Opal) implementation, granted the last two are less complete.

Yours, GC  

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 3:59 AM Hugo Melder <admin@hugomelder.com> wrote:

Cocoa is not only AppKit but also the CoreGraphics and CoreData Integration. We have no upstream Integration for the newer frameworks.

On December 23, 2021 1:01:43 AM GMT+01:00, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 18:13 Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:

Well, some parts of.

Apparently you haven’t looked lately.  

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 11:07 PM Gregory Casamento
<greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
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> “Ironically, Linux could easily have had much the same because all the functionality already exists in GNUstep, the venerable FOSS rewrite of NeXTstep's core libraries.“
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> Liam,
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> Excellent article, but I have to say that saying  GNUstep as an implementation of NeXTSTEP is half our issue.   It would be better to say it is an implementation of Cocoa.
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> GC
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> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 17:15 Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 23:01, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:
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>> > I'm unaware of a packaging system in GNUstep; I admit not to know of
>> > everything or keeping up with everything in GNUstep, however.
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>> > I'm also unaware of the article being referred to; I admit not to
>> > reading the entire (excessively long) thread. Could you kindly share
>> > the link again?
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>> To my piece? Sure.
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>> https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/linux_software_installation/
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>> It is not about GNUstep; it merely mentions it.
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>> Re your other points, all very well-argued, I think, and thanks for the info.
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