![]() It’s hard not to use it on OSX (compared to plain C/Objective-C it’s more powerful and much, much easier) but then you have another porting problem with everything else. If Sun agree to free the sources, thoses programs could be ported on MacOS X and GNUstep)Īpple’s Objective-C++ is a problem in porting from Cocoa. (thoses are great OpenStep applications made by Lighthouse design, which Sun bought, and never used. ![]() Īnd, don’t forget to sign the petition for freeing the lightouse apps ! □ If you want infos on GNUstep, I wrote a small links page here. GNUstep is also used in others applications than desktop apps, like GNUstepWeb ( ), a free WebObject implementation (it’s an application engine, like J2EE), or. It’s true in both senses : some MacOS X programs were OpenStep programs at the beginning (like Omnigraffle for example, or Omniweb), some GNUstep programs are ported on MacOS X (GNUMail for example), and some GNUstep programs were ported from MacOS X (ToyViewer - ok it was also an OpenStep program -, MPlayer.app. OpenStep (and OPENSTEP) are the main inspiration of MacOS X, and many MacOS X programs (Cocoa) could be recompiled on OPENSTEP or OpenStep system like GNUstep. GNUstep currently function on Linux, BSD and some others Unices, and some works are done in order to function under Windows. GNUstep is a free implementation of the OpenStep standard, developed by NeXT and Sun in the early 90s.
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