Re: NSRunLoop limitations

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

>On Wednesday 23 Jan 2002 9:29 am, Richard wrote:
>
>> The use of select() is a historical limitation ... yes the base library
>> really *has* been around so long that when it was written a lot of
>> systems
>> didn't have poll().
>
>We ran across a problem the other day with an external library using 
poll, 
>that did not work on MacOSX - we changed to select and that was ok.
>
>Now I don't imagine anyone will be using GNUstep's runloop atop MacOSX... 
or 
>maybe someone is... but there must be other systems around with the same 
>limitation.

While it really sounds silly to run GNUstep on Mac OS X on the first hand 
(since MOX already has Cocoa), there are situations where it indeed makes 
sense to run GNUstep alongside Cocoa: porting for instance. If one tries 
to port something from Cocoa to GNUstep, it would be great to have GNUstep 
on MOX. The other goal of porting GNUstep to Darwin/MOX is to give the 
"pure Darwin" users a great GUI.

>
>
>Stephen Brandon

Greetings, Lars