(really) Package ibtool

[matthewbauer]

Issue description

Apple has two formats for UI layouts: .xib and .nib. .nib is the old style binary layout that can be used natively by Cocoa/Carbon. .xib is an XML file that is designed to be checked into Git repositories and can be compiled into .nib. Lots of repos will just provide the .xib file and compile it as a build step using ibtool. Unfortunately for us, Apple has never released the source for ibtool which means that we cannot package most UI apps. A while back I worked to get Microsoft's xib2nib tool to work only to discover later that it only works with CocoaTouch interfaces. Three possible solutions are available to us:

• Work with WinObjC to add Cocoa support to xib2nib.
• Provide an "impure" ibtool scraped from Apple's XCode.
• Kindly ask package maintainers to ship tarballs with the .nib file included.

[copumpkin]

I'd obviously prefer the WinObjC approach, since I think its support is generally pretty (but not entirely?) mechanical, but it's probably more work.

[stale]

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[barracuda156]

Has anything made a workable open-source ibtool so far?