On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 15:27, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a high burden to maintain, there was one official, one > not-official... I agree that it is useful, but I consider having ready > working packages of quality of much higher impact. When I post about or write about GNUstep, people are generally amazed it still exists. There are only about 0.1% as many programmers as users. Millions of people use Linux as their desktop OS now. > That distribution > would be just a show-case, but then the majority of people would still > want to use GNUstep things in their current OS. I disagree, but I have said so before with little impact. > Maybe one day our impact > will be so great that GSUbuntu will spread, but I doubt. > Also, the strength of GNUstep is its portability, so the target OS shoud > be too. This is true, but if it's a visible, usable environment on Linux then that will be a reason to help make sure it's one on other free xNixes as well, no? > I wonder if Richard Stonehouse still reads us? His ready VM images was > excellent! What more convenient than trying in a virtual machine before > deciding to install? It was a good start, yes. I think a mainstream, current distro installable on bare metal for end-users *not programmers* is key, though. > They evaluated us and discarded GNUstep on what basis? I had no > interaction with any of them nor did i see things on the mailing list. Me neither. I am in touch with the guy; I will ask. > I > doubt someone without prior knowledge can grasp GS all by onself > without help. So you think "our loss", but I'd say also "their loss". That's the nature of FOSS. > Now they have a mesh of python stuff, simplified and different App > bunles... but at the end where are the "apps" for HelloSystem? The programmer is the man who devised AppImage. I think he has more than a bit of a clue in that direction. > We have few, but it is possible to make a full, consistent environment > of GNUstep. Several attempts have proven that! I am not doubting it. > A bad evaluation of GNUstep was done years ago.. then GNOME was created > and now we know the monstrum that came out which reinvented fromt eh > toolkit to distributed objects and now has a lot of disgruntled users. Agreed. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
