[Substrate-devel] Fwd: Status on mingw

[Colin B. <ti...@la...>]

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> From: Colin Barrett <ti...@la...>
> Date: August 31, 2006 7:15:09 PM HST
> To: Rand Dvorak <cen...@gm...>
> Subject: Re: [Substrate-devel] Status on mingw
>
> On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Rand Dvorak wrote:
>> I do have some additional questions.  Is it the goal of Substrate
>> to be api compatible with Apple's Foundation implementation, or  
>> merely the
>>  OpenStep standard?  How closely does Substrate
>> follow the GNUstep implementation?  I haven't dug into the internals
>> but GNUstep does build on mingw.  I haven't had time to research
>> the ability to staticly link against the GNUstep implementation.  It
>> seems that libFoundation has moved around quite a bit so I wonder
>> if all the bits aren't available somewhere, maybe just a matter of
>> collecting them all and rolling them into Substrate.  It would be  
>> nice
>> to at least have the win32 option if someone with the necessary
>> SKA's could be found to maintain the effort.
>
> The goal of substrate is to be compatible with Apple's Foundation,  
> yes. Substrate shares no code with GNUstep, and follows the Apple  
> documentation as its guideline on how to implement methods. A win32  
> option would be nice, yes, but it'd need someone willing to do the  
> legwork to get it working.
>
> I think Landon might be able to answer some of your other questions.  
> Thanks for your interest in Substrate, though :)
>
> -Colin