[gentoo-osx] Followup to: The road ahead?

Hi,

some time ago there was a lengthy thread about the road ahead, with some
interesting discussion about a hopefully better integration of Gentoo and
OSX. In some unrelated, but perhaps nevertheless interesting events I
stumbled across a couple of interesting topic which perhaps could help in
achieving such better integration.

JUst FYI, a better integration of Gentoo into Aqua/OSX starts at least
that I could use some kind of GUI, instead of having to resort to the
command line ;)

A good starting point  would be the following link
http://livingcode.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_livingcode_archive.html

The idea is to provide GUI frontends to Gentoo applications using Python
bindings to AppKit/Cocoa, and the use of Renaissance, a declarative GUI
approach implemented as part of the GNUstep project
(http://www.gnustep.org)

renaissance is already in Gentoo, in gnustep-libs. There exists no
ppc-macos ports (hopefully using MacoSX/Cocoa functionality instead of
Gnustep), so this would perhaps a good staring point.
http://livingcode.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_livingcode_archive.html

Other missing parts are pyObjc (http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/) and py2app
(http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html), which both are not yet
integrated into gentoo.

For my experiments I used a binary distribution of renaissance, a .mpkg of
pyObjc, and a source archive of py2app. All of them installed cleanly, so
in theory rthey should be ebuildable without big problems.

Comments?

Regards
Dirk






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