Re: GNUstep @ FOSDEM 2010 6th and 7th February 2010

[David Chisnall]

On 19 Oct 2009, at 23:36, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> currently only 4 people (including myself) have declared intend to  
> come to FOSDEM 2010. This is not to overwhelming if you ask me. Btw,  
> how about you, Nikolaus? Are you planning a FOSDEM presence? I am  
> also looking for some co-organisers for our FOSDEM presence. You did  
> already this two (or more?) times in the past so I'd appreciate your  
> experience here.

I can't guarantee I'll make it - I hoped to last year, but then found  
that it clashed with a big deadline - but I at least plan on trying  
to.  I'd be happy to give some Étoilé-related talks if anyone's  
interested, and maybe talk a bit about the current state of Objective- 
C compiler / runtime support.

For the more general audience, I'd suggest a talk like 'Porting Mac OS  
X applications to Linux and Windows with GNUstep'.  I recently  
recorded a video porting one of the Apple developer examples to  
FreeBSD with GNUstep, and the total porting time was about 5 minutes  
(including pausing to explain what's going on), so that is quite  
feasible to do in a presentation, even with some pauses to tweak the  
UI slightly for different platforms if required.

Hopefully by then Gregory will have committed his new-and-shiny  
Windows theme support and we can show GNUstep applications looking a  
bit more native on Windows.  I did have a GNUstep build environment  
running on Darwine, so that might also be quite nice to demo; set up  
an external build system target in XCode to invoke pbxbuild in WINE  
and and generate a Windows installer from XCode, copy to a Windows  
machine, install and run.

David

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