Re: Plans for ahead

[Gregory Casamento]

See my postings regarding this almost a year ago. :)   GNUstep should
absolutely support swift.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Maxthon Chan <xcvista@me.com> wrote:
> I would suggest that we should embrace ourselves for the impact of Apple open 
> sourcing Swift, and adapt the GNUstep environment to take advantage of, or 
> serve as a host of, the Swift 2.0 environment.
>
> There are several possibilities in Apple open sourcing Swift, given its tight 
> ties to Cocoa:
>
> 1) The Swift for Linux uses a different library and does not support 
> Objective-C interoperability at all. This would be a bummer and we cannot 
> cooperate with it.
> 2) Apple would submit a big patch set to one of the open source Cocoa 
> reimplementation (including GNUstep) to bring it up to speed with Apple, and 
> build Swift for Linux on top of that. If we are the receiving end of the 
> patch set it would be a tremendous opportunity for us.
> 3) Apple open source their own Cocoa implementation to support Swift for 
> Linux. We can then take advantage of that and start adapt GNUstep as a patch 
> or additions to Cocoa for Linux.
>
> Max
>
>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:36, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Interesting idea, I hope I got it right:
>> Would using linux-libre for "the" GNUstep (or NeXtStep) OS be
>> appropriate?
>> Could base it on one of these:
>> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
>>
>> --
>> Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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