On 2 Jan., 19:03, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 Jan 2010, at 16:53, [email protected] wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it isn't. The main reason is that iPhone Apps don't use > > GUI (AppKit) but UIKit (which is similar but more a cousin than a > > twin) and heavily rely on CoreGraphics, CoreAnimation and OpenGL-ES. > > Neither API is available through GNUstep or mySTEP. > > Not true. We have Opal, currently in Étoilé svn, which is an
Is Etoile the same as GNUstep or something different? Although I follow this topic for years I did never completely understand the relationship. > implementation of CoreGraphics. Gregory was getting the original > author to sign copyright assignment so that we could move it upstream > to GNUstep, but I'm not sure what the status of this is. > > Eric has been working on this over Christmas and has now implemented > things like CGLayer, which is used to implement the low-level bits of > CoreAnimation. He's also been working on making -gui issue GC* calls > instead of DPS* calls, so that we can use Opal for drawing and just > leave -back handling window creation and event generation (something > we discussed with Fred at the Étoilé hackathon last spring). Ah, interesting things. If they can become part of GNUstep svn this will be great. Additionally, we should find a way to make such work better known and coordinated (FOSDEM?) or people like me will spread false assumptions that something (like Opal) is *not available* in GNUstep. Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
