Re: [Pyobjc-dev] About linux Support.

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 8 Mar, 2010, at 4:39, Fabzter wrote:

> Today I found about pyobjc, and I'm pretty interested on it just
> because i like learning about different programming languages.
> Now, I want to learn objective c and to do it I'll write a very simple
> 2d game with it. The problem is I'm a linux user. I _know_ pyobjc is
> mac focused, but maybe you have some kind of support to linux?
> 
> Or maybe you can tell me where is the subset of the code (maybe the
> core?) that let objective-c and python  interact with each other. I'm
> only interested in that part, nothing about the cocoa and mac-only
> stuff. Please don't think I am too lazy; I'm rather TOO stupid, and
> I'll get quickly lost if I dive into pyobjc source. So any help, or
> pointers are really apreciated.

PyObjC does not support linux, and probably never will.  The core part of PyObjC is a bridge that translates Python method calls into Objective-C calls (and the other way around). This bridge uses the Objective-C runtime and the API for that is not standardized in any way, the GNU runtime (used by GNUstep on Linux) has a different API  than the one on OSX. 

Adding support for GNUstep on Linux is possible, but I'm not interested in doing the work.

Ronald
> 
> Thank you.
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