Hi, I found the following analysis most interesting: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux
Then I got to reading about your involvement with the automated testing software called Eggplant. The key to success is to reduce the support time needed to work with any piece of software. Would the testplant people be willing to make their software available on an open-source basis, or better yet the GPL ? I really think there is a need for more/improved regression testing throughout the linux software stack in general, but this last year shows how difficult it is to keep GNUstep stable while adding missing features. I think the Eggplant software might be just the right kind of tool to do the job for GNUstep and its offspring. What other tools are developers using for testing? Any reccomendations? How else can we reduce the support costs for GNUstep and its applications? Can some projects be merged to widen the appeal of GNUstep? I am thinking of the fork that Niklaus Shaller has been working with all these years. His major need was to support floating point operations on machines that did not have a FPU. The other thing that we talked about at FOSDEM was better cross-compiler support. Niklaus has been supporting an older tool chain (gcc 2.95 if I remember correctly) when David Chisnell suggested Clang might be a good replacement candidate for mult-platform compiler support. Does Clang support the ARM chip yet? Thanks, Gerold -- Gerold Rupprecht <[email protected]> 10, rue Louis-Curval CH-1206 Genève, Suisse sip:[email protected] Fixed: +41 (0) 22 347 73 96 Mobile: +41 (0) 79 914 29 52 Skype name: geroldr PGP Key ID DFA0A4D4 I prefer encrypted mail.
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