From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 21 03:14:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA08779 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 03:14:15 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA08773 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 03:14:12 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id DAA11938 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 03:13:56 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA11968; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:13:45 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:13:45 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Objective C in our source tree? In-Reply-To: <199508191034.DAA04213@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I'm starting to see more Objective C libraries coming out, such > as the ViewKit from the Hungry Programmers (the people doing LessTif). > > I think we've been taking gcc to somewhat reduced bits long enough and > we should be sensitive to the fact that some people do not regard this > loss of functionality in the translation to be a good thing. I remember > that someone here had done the work necessary to bringing back the > lost objective C driver and functionality - who was that? > > I'd like to bring it back. If nothing else, it would make gcc compatible > with its own on-line documentation again. Hang on a minute - ViewKit is C++ (its a clone of an SGI c++ library). I did see some links from their web pages to the GNUStep project which is Objective C. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939