GNUstep has made a great deal of progress over the last few years and has been getting better and better… the thing we need most is interested developers who are willing to help us make GNUstep into something really great.Īren’t many OS X apps coded with POSIX/BSD, Carbon, Cocoa and the Core Foundation, Core Data, Core Image, Core Video and Core Sound APIs?Īs I understand it, Carbon and Cocoa both have ways to access most of the Core APIs, and most of the Core Foundation API for C already has been mostly implemented by Apple.
The project also has a fully functional clone of InterfaceBuilder called Gorm. GNUstep’s gui (AppKit) library is completely functional, as is base (Foundation). This is mainly because, at the time WindowMaker was written, much of GNUstep’s gui library wasn’t completed.
It uses a library called WiNGs ( WiNGS is Not GNU step) to look like NeXTstep/OpenStep. Also, contrary to popular belief, WindowMaker does NOT use any of GNUstep. WindowMaker is the official window manager of the GNUstep project and offers the best integration with GNUstep applications. WindowMaker is a strictly a Window Manager and GNUstep is a development environment.
Time to correct a few misconceptions here…. Wrong topic should read out “WindowMaker”
