Re: Some questions about GNUStep

[Gregory Casamento]

Philippe,

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Philippe Laporte
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In order to figure out how to best contribute to the development efforts, I
> have a few questions:
>
> How far are you for MAC OS X 10.5 level support in the AppKit?

There are a lot of 10.5 additions which have been implemented, but we
don't have them all.   You should talk to Fred Kiefer to get a better
guide with respect to which classes need implementation at this point.

> Has anyone started retargeting to other than X11 for Linux, like SDL?

GNUstep uses a backend architecture.  Drawing and event code are
separated out into gnustep-back so that graphics and event handling
code can easily be retargeted to any platform.   Currently the Cairo
based backend is the default, but there exist backends for libart, GDI
and raw X11.  There's no reason SDL couldn't be used to implement a
backend for drawing.

> How do you avoid needing Core Foundation?

Because GNUstep was implemented without taking CoreFoundation into
account since at the time it was developed CF didn't exist.   Cocoa is
based on an older API known as OpenStep.   GNUstep started as an
implementation of OpenStep, but has grown to encompass Cocoa
functionality.

> What exactly is in core/gui/Headers/Additions/GNUStepGUI?

These are GNUstep additions (as the name suggests).

> Thanks and,
> Best Regards,
> Philippe Laporte

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