🚀 go-pugleaf

nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) writes:

> Consider supporting the GNUstep (GNU OpenStep) project:
> 
>      http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/GNUstep/

or
	http://www.gnustep.org

(main site, the EMBL one is the European mirror).

> It plans to implement all of those.  Some of them have already been
> implemented.  It's not a C toolkit, however.  It uses Objective-C
> (which gcc supports quite well).

Cons : GNUStep is *huge*, even though it's far from
complete. Installing it isn't a piece o'cake, you first have to patch
gcc 2.7.2 and to install the pthreads library. Then there's the whole
Display PostScript system. Then 3 *big* libs, the base, the GUI and
the X-DPS backend.

There is a "lighter" version called NSXKit (also still being
developped), which calls the Xlib directly, no DPS backend.

Pros : what is already done looks *very* promising, and it's improving
fast. Also, Objective C is a language well worth taking a look at,
which lets you very easily do things which you can only dream of in
C++, while being much more simple. It's a shame this language isn't
used more.

-- 
					Guillaume.
					http://www.worldnet.net/~glaurent