Re: [OT] developer support

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 23, 2001, at 07:59 AM, Raphael Sebbe wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have installed the last version of GNUstep available from the main 
> site, and I am very interested in porting some apps from OS X.
> But my main concern is the creation of interfaces, as everything else 
> has evolved so much in the last couple of months. So far there are 3 
> approaches : 1)through code, 2)GORM, 3)nib2gmodel.
>
> 1)That is tedious, especially when you have tens of nibs, or a nib with 
> tens of elements in it...
> 2)GORM : I have not a lot of info on this one (I am not on your CVS). 
> Is it useable right now ? I believe this one is the 'way to go' for 
> GNUstep. I really look forward to using it.
> 3)nib2gmodel :  I worked with it in the past, using YellowBox on NT to 
> create the nibs. It did work, but required quite a lot of tweaking.
>
> Could you please give me some clues on what's going on ?

Most new GNUstep code gets written using option 1.

Option 2 *should* be the way to go, but I just don't have time to 
develop Gorm at
present (though I will tests/incorporate patches, fixes etc) - so it's 
really
only of use for very simple UIs, without the support for custom objects 
that IB
provides.

Option 3 is probably a good bet for porting OPENSTEP apps, but I'm not 
sure it
works well for MacOS-X apps.