Liam,
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 7:31 PM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 00:07, Gregory Casamento > <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Thank you! > > It was only a brief mention and the piece was getting over-long > anyway. I feel that the term Cocoa is not well-enough known, nor would > ??? I'm wondering why Cocoa wouldn't be well known. > something like "Yellow Box" or something be either. I had just talked > about how macOS bundles apps into special folders, how it had > inherited this from its ancestor NeXTstep, so I thought it was fair to > continue that line by saying that there's a FOSS re-implementation of > that stuff. > Of Cocoa. :) My point was, from reading the article, if someone doesn't know the heritage of Cocoa, then they will read that as "GNUstep is a clone of NeXTSTEP." > > Is the .app folder bundle format part of Cocoa, the API, anyway? > > Part of the API? Not necessarily, but part of the OS, yes, absolutely. macOS/Cocoa still uses it. -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) > 702-829-053 > > Yours, GC -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://gf.me/u/x8m3sx - My GNUstep GoFundMe https://teespring.com/stores/gnustep - Store
