What good would accessing the API do without a Mac?
... allowing ppl to write software without needing to shell out $$$'s to Apple ?
Also, how would you even build something for the Cocoa API without a Mac?
well, with GNUStep which is a reimplementation of the Cocoa API, like the project we're discussing.
There's no issue building for instance stuff that targets Windows on Linux - I routinely build windows software from my linux by using MinGW and testing it with Wine. GNUStep provides a kind of approximation of that but it is much less up-to-date wrt Cocoa than MinGW is wrt Win32 API
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... allowing ppl to write software without needing to shell out $$$'s to Apple ?
well, with GNUStep which is a reimplementation of the Cocoa API, like the project we're discussing.
There's no issue building for instance stuff that targets Windows on Linux - I routinely build windows software from my linux by using MinGW and testing it with Wine. GNUStep provides a kind of approximation of that but it is much less up-to-date wrt Cocoa than MinGW is wrt Win32 API