On 27 October 2014 00:28, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> Other applications to get a more complete environment you can pick among the > two major desktop projects, GAP and Etoilé, What is this GAP? I've not heard of it. > What you ask, however, is more: tight integration with an OS. That's tricky. > I can tell you that GNUStep runs, when compiled from source, quite well on > most major free operationg systems. Most flavours of Linux (I test Debian > and Gentoo) and NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. However, GNUstep has many > configuration options, so the official packages of these OS's may be > configured differently, usually to be more linux and FHS compliant. If you > want a Mac like experience, none of them is your choice, really. Agreed. ElementaryOS has something somewhat OS X-like, but it's based off GNOME 3, sadly. Maybe if they knew of GNUstep they would have used it instead. :'( > To get the most Mac-like experience, you need to configure with the > GNUstep-layout and with a root as /, so that you get directories like > /System/Applications. I'd say that all cited operating systems right now are > quite well supported. > > Bundles? Yes, we do have them. For apps, frameworks, loadable bundles, > themse and also documents (like RTFD) in pure OpenStep/Mac style. Most > distributions, for example ebian, try to break these bundles up however, > since they are alien to the typical file system layout enforced by various > policies. It may work, but it is not what you are looking for. That's a good insight. It is also a real problem for the ROX Desktop project, my *other* favourite obscure Linux desktop. ;¬) ROX just (!) invented its own packaging system to get around this -- 0launch. > I don't know if we support "Fat bundles" and especially how sense they have > in the more fragmented OS environment which, for example, many different > Linux OS's. > > As for DMGs, I know that you feel they are convenient and how they very > easily can be virtually monuted, burned onto optical media or (in old times) > to floppies. I don't think we have support for that though and how it could > be implemented in a portable way. I am also not 100% sure it would be a good idea. I really love Debian's APT, as used in Ubuntu etc. It is far far better than the OS X way of doing things. I just don't like the way it scatter-guns components all through dozens of inscrutably-named little directories buried in a cryptically-named filesystem hierarchy built on the principles of 1970s-1980s server maintenance good practice. > So for your specific question I don't think one OS will be better than > another Well, me, I would say 1 of 2 ways offers potential. [1] run it on Ubuntu and put up with the weird Linux FHS. That way you get a solid, widely- and well-supported OS [2] Get involved, help get GNUstep running on Gobo, and get a sensible, readable, understandable filesystem hierarchy with clean separation between packages and versions, but it's going to require work to get it to ready-for-prime-time. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
