Re: Gnustep + mac + windows? Possible?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 08:53 AM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > "Philippe C.D. Robert" wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > > > Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > > > > So long as Cocoa is a proper superset of the spec, it strictly 
> > > > > speaking
> > > > > (no pun intended ;) )  remains an OpenStep implementation.   I also
> > > > > think that if certain parts of it have been done away with that it's
> > > > > still fair to consider it an OpenStep implementation since the spec
> > > > > hasn't been updated for almost eight years.
> > > >
> > > > Apple do not seem to be even _considering_ OpenStep. The new stuff 
> > > > they've
> > > > created has a rather different API style, and the new classes are
> > > > substantially overengineered when compared to the OpenStep 
> > > > philosophy (and
> > > > the Unix philosophy, for that matter).
> > >
> > > What do you mean by that? Cocoa is still OpenStep wrt previously 
> > > existng
> > > APIs, of course they add new stuff which cannot be OpenStep, but I
> > > consider this is a GoodThing - the OpenStep spec is 8 years old and a
> > > lot has changed since then (I don't say every addition they made is 
> > > good
> > > or necessary, though...). Now if the new classes are well designed or
> > > not I cannot judge, I never used them so far...
> >
> > In Cocoa, Apple have changed (and continue to change) the existing 
> > APIs.
>
> Out of curiosity, which one for example?...

NSObject, NSString, NSBundle, NSArray, NSMethodSignature etc etc
Lots in the gui too of course.
Most changes are just additional methods, but a few remove/change old 
methods.
And then there are entirely new classes.

Simplest thing to do to get a picture is read the release notes for the 
various
MacOS-X releases (though that won't tell you about all the differences 
between
the first MacOS-X and OpenStep).