on the topic of a gnustep distro.... has anyone looked at packaging gnustep for Reactos?
On 18 February 2016 at 16:19, Dan Hitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely --- an entire OS which you just install on some partition > of a gpt disk > would be perfect, imvho. > > I would certainly download and use it. > > And, to me, it would be infinitely preferable to a piece of middleware. > > But the guys who are developing it rightfully have the choice of what > to develop, > and it is their exclusive decision on how to invest their time. > > I would say, though, that i think it is fantastically difficult to devise > a useful piece of middleware that can easily run well on a pile of > targets, and the Next itself tried making a version running on only > two platforms (their own and NT) but abandoned the project. > > And i would say further that Thom's troubles ultimately stem from this > fantastic difficulty. It is very hard to imagine how a small team could > pull off a reasonable windows version. The fact that there's a windows > version which is only 2 years out of date is already an amazing > achievement, again imvho. Cross-platform is hard (and i would dare say > that QT, WxWindows, Java and other such efforts underline this point; it's > hard to act like a native if you are not a native). > > So in my opinion, trying to hit a moving target (Mac) while wanting to > run on all kinds of platforms (including Windows) is much too ambitious. > Doing one job well seems much more in reach. > > However, those that are doing the work get to call the shots, and > everyone else, including me, is a whiner (to paraphrase Torvalds just a > little). > > So thanks all you gnustep developers for what you've done, and if > you ever do build something that can be installed on bare hardware (using > a linux kernel, a bsd kernel, or something else) i'm all ears. Especially > if > it knows what a gpt disk is so that it can be installed alongside my > gnu/linux systems. > > But even if you never do, i still admire you!!! :) [And i still like > Camera.ap!!] > > dan > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Austin Clow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Second this. > > > > On 17,Feb 2016, at 1:12 PM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Speaking of a vision. What I personally would like to see is a complete > OS > > distro built from the bottom up with GNUstep in mind. I believe I made a > > mistake when I held back on the desktop idea way back. The reason I did > > this was to allow other desktops to prosper. > > > > I would like us to consider creating something new and great and not > > tethered to technologies which hold us back. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >
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