Cocotron

Parent page: Base systems

• The Cocotron is an open source project which aims to implement a cross-platform Objective-C API similar to that described by Apple Inc.'s Cocoa documentation. This includes the AppKit, Foundation, Objective-C runtime and support APIs such as CoreGraphics and CoreFoundation.
• After the comparison listed in the second external link. GNUStep is better and more complete than Cocotron. Cocotron requires Mac OSX to build apps that can run on Windows, so there is no benefit from it except the only thing that may be helpful is that they have implementation for CoreGraphics and QuartzCore (CoreAnimation), and CoreData
• Cocotron CoreText implementation seems to be weak. They have only CTFont.

##Checkout

• Check out the code as mentioned in https://code.google.com/p/cocotron/source/checkout:

    ~$ sudo aptitude -y install hgsvn mercurial
    ~$ cd develop/resources
    ~/develop/resources$ hg clone https://code.google.com/p/cocotron/
  

##External links

• Cocotron source
• Cocotron Vs. GNUStep
• CoreText implementation
• CoreGraphics implementation
• QuartzCore implementation
• CoreData implementation
• Checkout