Graham J Lee wrote:
On 12 Feb 2007, at 12:51, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
In my opinion, it's a lousy attempt to become C# -- read: pandering to
MS developers, rather than taking care of its base. Bad strategy in my
opinion.
Is that because existing ObjC developers are *real* developers who don't
_need_ any fancy garbage collection or fast enumeration? ;-) IMO, the
new features look useful[*]...take-up of course depends on how quickly
and how many developers are willing to leave OS X 10.<=4 behind. Which
if Core Data on 10.4 was anything to go by, is quite a number and quite
soon.
Cheers,
Graham.
[*]in different contexts of course...garbage collection probably
wouldn't be too attractive on existing code unless you know you've got a
retaincount bug *glares at Cocoa Bindings*
Graham,
Hi there, This is Alex Perez. I recently had a private discussion with
Greg Casamento, and by way of a third party who shall remain nameless,
outside of the GNUstep community, your name came up as a nominee for a
GNUstep steering committee, which Greg has endorsed as a general idea. I
understand you're working for Nicola these days, and would appreciate it
if you would remain mum with him for the time being. He will certainly
be one of the members of the SC, but we wanted to ask you if you'd be
interested. We'd like someone who is interested in the project, but
still has a rather independent viewpoint, to be on the SC, along with
one other person (if you have any suggestions, let us know) so we have
an odd number of folks for tie-breaking purposes.
Greg is becoming unhappy with some of the core developers making
unilateral decisions with regards to certain aspects of GNUstep, and I
personally believe some folks are acting more in their own
personal/corporate-represented interests and less so in the long-term
interests of the GNUstep project as a whole.
I know you use AIM, and I'd love to chat with you about this at your
convenience. Please add me, I'm 'aperezbios' via AIM, and would love to
chat with you either there or here further, regarding this issue.
Cheers,
Alex Perez
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