Gregory,
I’m leaving out your replies as it seems you did not get me right.
First I was trying to strengthen your approach by reflecting the public
opinion about GNUstep as far as I recognized it. Of course it is not
fully true and of course I did not write and speak with everyone or did
scientific research.
Second I was proposing a compromise of keeping base compatible to GCC
and only update AppKit to the new runtime. But as you already wrote this
does not seem to be sufficient.
If there are bigger free software projects using AppKit I’d be
interested to know, btw.
The proposal of forking GNUstep and running two forks seems too much
work to me and probably you won’t be able to port back what you’ve
achieved using clang. So to me it seems you just have to decide if you
start doing GNUstep 2.0 (breaking compatibility for new features, but
keeping compatibility for older features of course - using clang you can
compile everything you can with gcc, don’t you?). I don’t see a way
of a compromise or middle ground.
Johannes
