Re: [Pyobjc-dev] About linux Support.

[Virgil D. <hs...@ha...>]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Virgil Dupras <hs...@ha...> wrote:
> In other words, it's probably easier to for PyObjC and convert it into
> a GNUStep bridge :)
> --
> Virgil Dupras
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma...> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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Arg, sorry for top posting, and it was "fork" instead of "for"...