On 11 Feb 2007, at 22:57, Nicolas Roard wrote:

That could be interesting, yes.. particularly if we continue the
livecd/custom system way, we could possibly compile the apple gcc +
apple runtime in the future -- the main advantage would be the
availability of some of the niceties apple added. But I'm not sure how
much work it would need, and in the short term, it's probably not our
main concern.

I think the biggest problem with this is that anyone who looks at the Apple code can't then contribute to the GNU runtime. I wouldn't mind putting some effort into porting the Apple runtime in principle, but I don't want to become 'tainted' and unable to work on the GNU one in the future.

Now, if Apple would LGPL their runtime...

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