In article <[email protected]>, Ivan VuÄica <[email protected]> wrote:
As someone who does mostly Mac/iOS development, but keeps his feet wet with GNUstep, I see the main factors being: > 3. No proven commercial viability It's just a non-starter to suggest supporting a platform when you can't show you'll get significant sales. The only way you *might* be able to accomplish it is if you essentially make dedicated, turn-key systems that have little need to run on Apple hardware. > 4. Missing API > 5. Platforms do differ Even if you convince people to look into supporting it as a contingency plan, "it's just a re-compilation" is in *no* way a given. Just about any ObjC developer will be happy to give it a shot . . . provided you pay enough money for their development efforts! Simply offering to by a copy of $20 software (or even $200 software) if it were available for any specific GNUstep platform isn't going to get you anywhere. -- iPhone apps that matter: http://appstore.subsume.com/ My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
