Hey Francisco, This would require that all of the various maintainers agree to upload their software to one given site which is simply not the way it works anywhere.
I believe that what we need is something like what we already have on the wiki, but more focused. A central registry which contains links to where you can download the software... something like Version Tracker, I suppose. Just my $0.02. Later, GJC Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc # GNUstep Chief Maintainer ----- Original Message ---- From: Francisco Oltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:58:24 AM Subject: Re: Central GNUstep software index? On 19-Apr-08, at 10:57 AM, Riccardo wrote: > Hi, > > > On 2008-04-18 08:41:59 +0200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> One key problem of GNUstep is IMHO that it is quite difficult to find >> application software projects. There is GAP, some other (partially >> abandoned) projects and some announcements apear here on this list >> from time to time. > Fully agreed. > > And i agree, too. sorry, to step in, but i feel i have to give my humble opinion from my perspective as a gnustep user. Here's another proposal, don't know if it was considered or not. Since one of GNUstep's goals it s to be portable across platforms, and that portability is obtained by recompilation and not binary distribution, and given that nowadays everyone loves a central software distribution system where you can avoid to look for the dependencies, download, unpack and build them by hand, wouldn't it be great to have the equivalent of the BSD port system but based on the GNUstep system instead of a specific OS, only requiring you have the gnustep core installed ? another good examples to look at are Ocaml's Godi or Perl's CPAN . Does that make sense? Then i know some will i answer why bother if you can leave distribution of binaries (or source) to the os package distribution, but then it's good to remember not everyone runs ubuntu linux, and packages getting dropped it's another issue. Cheers, Francisco _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
