Yves de Champlain wrote:
You mean the MacPorts prefix (/opt/local) ? How would that work ? I'm trying to bootstrap the _initial_ MacPorts installation here.
OK, it's just that the email's subject is selfudate so i thought that left room for add-ons
Well, I've installed MacPorts 1.4.0/1.5.0 from packages - using the regular tarball and some extra patches/setups step that are needed. And that works, just that when later trying to do "selfupdate" - it breaks since those extra setup steps (such as GNUstep.sh) are missing. But I can install MacPorts 1.4.42 and 1.5.2 from tarballs too, so it's not *that* big a deal - even if somewhat annoying. :-)
Does it work on Darwin 8.0.1 too, or only on Darwin 7.0.1 ?
I think startup is supposed to work with Darwin 7 but I never used it (MP is so much better :-). MP gnustep was not tested on Darwin OS because I was never able to get X11 running on Darwin 8.0.1 with my iMac (it runs but screen is black) but it runs quite well in 10.4 (aside from the runtime restrictions, which mostly means no OpenGL)
I'll give it a another whirl next time then, but maybe it's easier to install DarwinPorts 1.3 and just install GNUstep from there... Don't really care about Darwin anymore, since it isn't 100% same as Mac OS X and since FreeBSD works much better out of the box.
Why would you have two runtimes on Darwin OS / "puredarwin" ? If I did have the Apple library, I wouldn't need the GNU one.
I read MacOSX where it was written Darwin ... I guess then the gnustep ports should run even better in Darwin, with OpenGL support.
I seem to recall it having a problem with the Apple GCC compiler, so probably need to build a FSF GCC first in order to compile it. Ironically I have only been able to run Darwin on Windows, though. For some reason it just doesn't want to play nice with Parallels.
On the other hand, most Cocoa programmers just don't care about FOSS.
I guess if they did, they would be using OpenStep instead... And the same probably goes for most Mac OS X users as well.
Yes, but cocoa developers could see a way to easily port their apps to other platforms.
Then again the number running GNUstep (or any other OpenStep) is probably small, compared even to number of GNOME or KDE desktops ? I'm using wxWidgets instead, even if it means suffering C++ ... (for portable apps that is, otherwise one had better use Cocoa) --anders