-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-26 21:25:16 +0800 Michael Thaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And nextstep/openstep is dead for a long time. Without Steve Jobs noone would care for nextstp/openstep at all anymore. Steve Jobs did the right thing. He turned nextstep into something the average Joe user can and wants to use. Steve Jobs allways managed to make things that excite people. But gnustep is not exciting for the average Joe user. It is an excellent development framework based on an excellent language, but there are absolutely no applications which make it worth using gnustep, it looks ugly compared to MacOSX, KDE or GNOME (this is of course personal preference but I am quite sure if you ask 100 average computer users which look they like most, gnustep will be the loser by a wide margin), it interoperates badly with every other free desktop environement (which is bad because there are essential apps like a browser missing in gnustep) and it is hard to install.
Not really. Mac OS X is openstep. Its very much alive. In fact I started to get interested in GNUstep when i dug a little bit into Mac OS X documentation. It showed that the design is sound and commercially viable. The core developers of GNUstep want a portable cross platform development environment. They just dont care if its popular or not. They have something they can use and if the rest of the world thinks otherwise then, well, so what? GNUstep is not going to go away. Im using an almost all GNUstep laptop. I built it by hand from sources but of course its not complete. Its running on debian and the browser is firefox. Its not wise to start hyping gnustep before we have something like a nextstep reincarnation. Thats just my opinion anyway. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using the GPG bundle for GNUMail iD8DBQFDiHQZyihxuQOYt8wRApgYAKC4pD3GkPxItKcMquOaDGfpudCYQwCfcYYu zTUjJ3N52ldtkWNvjzSlebw= =8HtH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
