20-25 years ago, one of the problem GNUStep had is it was never packaged in the Linux distros. You had to compile everything.
One of the reason might have been GCC refused to include the Objective C extensions or something like that. I vaguely remember there might have been some legal concerns.
Maybe someone can clarify this.
But damn GNUStep was fast, snappy and a much better platform than let's say Gnome at the time. There was simply no comparison.
You could take a GNUStep app like Mail.app and just compile in Apple IDE and run it on Mac OS X (but the opposite wasn't possible).
It was one of the most impressive Free Software project out there at the time.
One of the reason might have been GCC refused to include the Objective C extensions or something like that. I vaguely remember there might have been some legal concerns.
Maybe someone can clarify this.
But damn GNUStep was fast, snappy and a much better platform than let's say Gnome at the time. There was simply no comparison.
You could take a GNUStep app like Mail.app and just compile in Apple IDE and run it on Mac OS X (but the opposite wasn't possible).
It was one of the most impressive Free Software project out there at the time.