[TxMt] Re: TextMate and Objective-J

[Tom Robinson]

Hans, et al

I'm one of the core Objective-J / Cappuccino developers. I'm glad you  
like it, and thanks for helping out.

We actually use $OBJJ_HOME in the Objective-J tools already. If you  
install the Tools package it currently puts all the tools and  
libraries in /usr/local/share/objj. This is the default used in case  
$OBJJ_HOME isn't set. If you install the tools elsewhere, you can set  
your $OBJJ_HOME to that location. We just didn't want to have to set  
too many environment variables ($STEAM_BUILD is already required, it's  
where frameworks, etc are built)

Anyway, I like the idea. We probably will be putting a copy of  
Frameworks at $OBJJ_HOME/Frameworks and the template applications  
somewhere in $OBJJ_HOME.

We're actually planning on adding some commands for generating  
standard projects to the "steam" tool (an Objective-J specific build  
tool, similar to xcodebuild). This would be similar to the "rails"  
command with Ruby on Rails. Then the TM commands you're talking about  
would simply call steam with whatever the syntax for a new app is.

Any thoughts?

Also, feel free to join us in #cappuccino on irc.freenode.net

-Tom