That and tools that work. Not to be offensive, that's not my intent, but I was recently looking at using GnuStep as an avenue to be able to use some of my Cocoa tools at work via GnuStep. I tried installing the dev environment on windows. It installs, and GORM builds and is excellent. Of course, unless you are a GnuStep makefile guru, it's not terribly easy, or approachable to do development.
Further exacerbating the issue is that the installation process on Linux is absolutely no better. For example, I have a SUSE 9.1 box behind me. Installed WM, GNuStep Startup, built GORM (it won't actually run, some problem with gdomap that I haven't taken the time to resolve. Project Center won't build on the box, it's apparently missing a dependancy, though it's not well reflected. Project Center won't build on Windows at all, eaxcerbating the issue is that the platform it's most like, it requires quite a bit of effort to get things working there, and that's on OS X. In short, while GNUStep has a serious cool factor, it's current installation and dev tool process is arcane at best, unusable at worst and generally not friendly to a new or casual developer using it, and attracting these people is easy, retaining them is not, and when the tools are in the state that they are currently in... Well, I hope you get the picture. Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: attracting software developers Paraplegic Racehorse schrieb: > The abandonment of old, great software products after Apple allowed > the API to languish for, what, five years? can have done nothing good > for Why do you think so? Look at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev and see how active it is. > GNUstep. How can we get the few remaining developers to support GNUstep? I would not say there are a few remaining developers to support the Apple API... IMHO their number is even growing. But there are only a few on GNUstep. IMHO, GNUstep needs a clear perspective, e.g. platform indepencence while 99,95% compatible to the latest Cocoa additions... Currently, I would say its support is for Linux mostly, some Windows - and one Handheld Linux PDA (Zaurus). And perhaps a complete distribution (incl. some underlaying OS) with an interesting application suite. Zero effort installation. Boots directly from CD. Similar to Knoppix or Zeta. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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