nufound

A newfound treasure; a lightweight Foundation library for Linux.

APACHE-2.0 License

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This is NuFound, a revision of the libFoundation library for use with Nu.

ABOUT

Forked mainly for expedience, NuFound contains a few bug fixes and enhancements that make NuFound look more like the Apple Foundation classes. But there are many missing features, so in the future, one or more of the following may happen, in no particular order of preference:

  1. the GNUstep base library will be updated for use with Nu instead of NuFound.

  2. the Cocotron project will be updated so that it can be built and used with the "stock" GCC and libobjc on Linux.

  3. NuFound will remerge into a revived libFoundation project.

  4. a mature corporate Foundation library will be released under an acceptable open source license.

  5. NuFound will continue to be enhanced until it satisfies all requirements.

But in its current state, NuFound supports a fully-functional build of Nu.

LICENSE

NuFound is released under the Apache Public License, v. 2.0. libFoundation is available under a more liberal original license.

INSTALLATION

./configure make sudo make install sudo cp -r Foundation /usr/local/include

(Sorry about that last step; if someone would help me get it into the autotools Makefiles I would greatly appreciate it!)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many (many many!) thanks to Mircea Oancea, Ovidiu Predescu, and Helge Hess for sharing their work on libFoundation.

APPENDIX: Autoconf/Automake notes

To regenerate the build files with autoconf/automake, run the following command:

% autoreconf --install

The two primary source files are configure.ac Makefile.am

To clean up, use:

% make distclean