On 7 Jan 2014, at 12:16, Niels Grewe <niels.gr...@halbordnung.de> wrote:
> (Sorry, forgot to CC the list) > > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > >> Von: Niels Grewe <niels.gr...@halbordnung.de> >> Betreff: Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal >> Datum: 7. Januar 2014 13:00:12 MEZ >> An: David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> >> >> >> Am 07.01.2014 um 12:06 schrieb David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org>: >> >>> On 7 Jan 2014, at 10:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald >>> <richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> I read 'Objective-C 2' as 'we support the features Apple introduced in >>>>> 2005! Yay!' >>>> >>>> You may be unusual in that. >>> >>> Possibly, but the 2006 WWDC was the first and last time Apple referred to a >>> set of new Objective-C features as Objective-C 2. The term Objective-C 2 >>> does not appear in current Apple docs, >> >> <nitpicking> >> That’s not quite true: Some of the documents still talk about something >> called "Objective-C 2.0“, most notably the runtime programming guide: >> >> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCRuntimeGuide/Articles/ocrtVersionsPlatforms.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008048-CH106-SW1 >> </nitpicking> >> >> But that doesn’t make the term any more intelligible. I think we should >> prefer to use a concise description of the feature set over any marketing >> mumbo jumbo. I sympathise/agree with that ... but we have, on the website , a consice description of what gnustep is, and yet just had Doc O'Leary complaning because we didn't have a marketing mission statement. Probably we need both ... a good description and a marketing phrase to refer to it. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
