Matt, Thank you for this very reasoned response.
GC On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Matt Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello James: > > This is hardly constructive. How, specifically, do you think GNUstep could > be improved? > > Here is why I care about GNUstep, though I am a late-comer to this > community, and not very actively involved (yet). > > 1. It aims for parity with the native toolkit of a mainstream platform (OS > X). True, WINE does the same for Windows, but see the next point. > > 2. Said API has a unified object-oriented foundation, unlike the mess we > have on Windows. > > 3. This API is more friendly to dynamic languages than wxWidgets, GTK, or > Qt, let alone the mess of API's on Windows. By dynamic languages, I mean > languages like Python, Ruby, Lua, Io, Smalltalk, and even JavaScript. > Unlike the other toolkits I mentioned, Cocoa and GNUstep don't require you > to write, or even generate, bindings for every object. > > 4. The GNUstep Renaissance project is useful even to developers who only > care about Cocoa, especially for developers who don't want to (or can't) use > Interface Builder or Gorm. > > I know the GNUstep team is addressing the problem of aesthetics, so if this > isn't possible already, you should eventually be able to make GNUstep apps > look the way you want. Especially apps that use Renaissance instead of the > fixed layouts produced by Gorm. (Incidentally, it saddens me that GNUstep > newcomers are still attracted to Gorm rather than Renaissance.) > > True, GNUstep is short on contributors. Is this your primary concern? > > You say GNUstep could have been great. It can be still. But what, exactly, > does this mean to you? > > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
