Quentin Mathé wrote:
> Le 22 nov. 08 à 00:35, Fred Kiefer a écrit :
>> I am
>> volunteering to help you integrate back the changes from Wild Menus  
>> and
>> Camaelon into gui.
> 
> That's really great!
> On my side, I'm going to first resubmit all my existing AppKit  
> patches, then if nobody has tackled Wild Menus merge in the meantime,  
> I'll to look at it and split the code so you can reintegrate the  
> necessary changes back into gnustep-gui.
> 

Great.

>> As for other changes you are really welcome to start coding again on
>> GNUstep, I hope that you will be surprise by some of the progress we
>> made during the last year.
> 
> Indeed. I remember to have observed some very nice progresses in  
> NSView, NSImage and glyph generation. Writing EtoileUI on both GNUstep  
> and Mac OS X at the same time have confirmed this impression. It's a  
> big framework that use many features of AppKit, and with few  
> workarounds it works well on both GNUstep and AppKit. The only major  
> things that aren't working as well on GNUstep as Cocoa are the drag  
> and drop and the nib support. I haven't tried nib support for few  
> months though, so this might have changed. iirc time to time the  
> drawing code ported from Mac OS X also need to be adjusted to get the  
> same result.
> 
> NSArray now works well over DO, this was a really nice fix too in  
> Foundation. I can now do funny stuff like browsing and modifying the  
> UI of a running application from another one by the mean of DO and  
> CoreObject. Another GNUstep change that has really made a difference  
> is the fact gnustep-make has become a lot better at building frameworks.

Yes, GNUstep really did progress well last year. I am always hoping for
more. :-)
We are almost at a state where porting over an application from Cocoa is
just a matter of hours. And it would be great to get bug reports (and
test code) for the remaining issues.

Fred

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