Re: Need help porting old (very old) NeXT app

[Gregory Casamento]

--- Stefan Böhringer <stefan.boehringer+usenet@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2001 13:39:15 +0000, Damian Steer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm considering porting a very old (but historically interesting) NeXT 
> > app to GNUStep. I've got the source code but it's pretty baffling (I've 
> > only ever used GNUStep and MacOS X). The odd bits are:
> > 
> > 1) Classes start 'NX' not 'NS'
> > 
> > 2) No project builder files at all - just IB.
> > 
> > This is from '91. I tried nib2gmodel on Mac OS X 10.1 (they need to 
> > clean up that naming ;-) but it reported the nib file as unsupported 
> > '2.x'. I'm guessing that IB used to maintain projects, and hoping that 
> > s/NX/NS/ will be sufficient to get most of the app working.
> > 
> > Any old NeXT types have any tips? Are there any other sources of 
> > information for prehistoric NeXT?
> 
> 1. You should definitly go through OPENSTEP first. You can use the
> OPENSTEP IB to read 3.3 nib files and save them in 4.2 file format. Then
> nib2gmodel should work.
> 2. Unfortunately, substituting NX for NS is not enough. However the
> conversion scripts supplied with OPENSTEP work quite well. As an example
> I could port BackSpace.app in some hours.
> 
> Therefore, if OPENSTEP is available, first port to OPENSTEP, then to
> GNUstep.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Stefan
> 

There are conversion scripts on OPENSTEP for just the purpose of porting a
NeXTSTEP app to OPENSTEP.


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