I wonder whether Etoile has any interest to maintain StepTalk on GNUstep, probably move it into Etoile project ? Frankly, I am often confused by some parts of StepTalk. But the application scripting part may be useful for Etoile. Any objc binding can access both Foundation and AppKit classes. In order to access running applications and their objects in run time, StepTalk or something similar may be required.
By the way, I just found HOC ( http://hoc.sourceforge.net/ ), a Haskell to Objective-C binding: "HOC's primary platform is Mac OS X, Apple's modern UNIX-based operating system. However, HOC does provides preliminary support for the GNUstep platform <http://www.gnustep.org/>, and has been lightly toasted, err, tested, with GNUstep on Linux." But I am not sure what's the advantage of using functional language with object-oriented language. Have fun. Yen-Ju ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stefan Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 26, 2006 1:21 AM Subject: Maintaining StepTalk for GNUstep To: GNUStep Discuss <[email protected]> Hi, I have moved development of StepTalk from GNUstep to OS X. There is no working GNUstep installation on my machine any more. Is there someone who would like and will have the time to maintain GNUstep version of StepTalk? That will include maintaining Cocoa->GNUstep compatibility as well. Possible issues to the future with the compatibility - NSPredicate-based language (mainly for actor's methods) is planned - more comlpex StepTalk based applications will likely use bindings and key-value-observing, however, I will try to avoid them in simple applications Difference between current GNUstep version and OS X version: - XCode project instead of makefiles - slightly reorganised source tree - default Smatllalk language amd default modules are bundled inside the framework - not polluting Library directory - new steptalk resource management - few new methods, few obsoleted functions... More on: http://steptalk.blogspot.com I will provde all information needed to anyone who will be interested in the maintenance. Regards, Stefan Urbanek p.s.: One more question: would you like me to notify this list about new StepTalk releases even they will be mainly OS X related or not? -- http://stefan.agentfarms.net First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
