Re: Objective-C programming

[Mehul N. Sanghvi]

Gregory John Casamento said the following on 9/28/2005 10:23 PM:
> Sherm,
>
> --- Sherm Pendley <sherm@dot-app.org> wrote:
>
> > "Mehul N. Sanghvi" <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Is it possible to do any useful Objective-C programming, without
> > > GNUstep?
> > Yes - tens of thousands of Macintosh developers do so every day.
>
> I'm pretty sure he meant on AppKit/Foundation. :)
>
> To answer Mehul's question.  Yes, it's possible.  The gcc Objective-C compiler
> comes with a few simple objects you can use.  You are in no way forced to use
> GNUstep's base/gui libraries,

Excellent.  Thanks.

> Additionally, there's this project: http://www.kjwcode.com/projects/objci

I'll check this out.

> GNUstep's base/gui (Foundation/AppKit) are much more mature than objci, so this
> begs the question, why do you want to avoid using them?

I am not trying to avoid using them, just that I have a low-end machine
and don't want to strain it too much by having to make use of the
GUI (low end being 66MHz NuBus PowerMac 7100).  As I said in my original
post, I have wanted to learn Objective-C, but under the false assumption
that one needed the GUI as well.  Nicola and yourself have clarified
that misconception.


Thanks,

     mehul

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