Re: [F-Script-talk] Porting FScript to other O.S.: some questions

[Nathan S. <nat...@jp...>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:

>
> On 25/ago/06, at 17:47, Nathan Strange wrote:
>
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>> On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
>>>
>>> How can be difficult to make FScript multi-platform?
>>> For instance,  If we can have a stripped down version of FScript
>>> written in Java or C++, we can spread it also on Linux and Windows.
>>> It needn't to offer the same feature. Even the simple interpreter
>>> with a Plugin Architecture to extend it would be a strong starting
>>> point.
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't GNUStep make more sense?
> GNUStep is a objective C port of NextStep?
> Mmmh I don't know it at all and I fear cannot be ported easily to
> Windows.
> Java  seems more easy to use as target language.

There is GNUStep for windows... don't know how complete it is though.

But F-script is written in Objective-C and it seems like a lot of  
work to re-write it in Java...  especially since Java may not support  
all of the Objective-C features used by F-script.

-Nathan