Re: [Pyobjc-dev] About linux Support.

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

On 8 Mar, 2010, at 5:20, Mani Ghasemlou wrote:

> Hi Fabzter,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Fabzter <fab...@gm...> wrote:
>> Today I found about pyobjc, and I'm pretty interested on it just
>> because i like learning about different programming languages.
> 
> Curiosity is as good a reason as any!
> 
>> 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?
>> 
> 
> I believe at one point PyObjC supported GNUStep
> (http://www.gnustep.org), but it does not anymore. In other words,
> PyObjC will unfortunately not be very useful to a Linux user. The
> value proposition for PyObjC, for better or worse, is entirely to the
> benefit of MacOS X developers who wish to interact with Cocoa using
> Python.

PyObjC had very limited support for GNUstep, but that never worked properly and because nobody was interested in finishing the port I ripped that support out.

If someone really wants gnustep support and is willing to support that I'm willing to merge a patch to that effect. However, that person will have to do all the work, I'm will not merge partial patches or even run tests on Linux (which means a linux maintainer will have to fix the linux port from time to time because development on OSX broke linux support).

Ronald