Re: GNUstep releases this month?

2021-01-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
Ivan Vučica wrote: > Debian is soft-freezing on 2021-02-12. Debian is already in library transition freeze so please don't rush with the releases just for the sake of it. We had a chat with Gürkan recently and decided that we won't manage for bullseye should there be new GNUstep releases. Sorry

Re: Embedded blocks...

2019-11-02 Thread Yavor Doganov
Jordan Schidlowsky wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2019, at 2:47 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > I fixed a bug in SOPE on SuperH just a few months ago. Over the > > years, I recall fixes in GNUstep core libraries on HP-PA, GNU/Hurd > > and GNU/kFreeBSD, to name a few. And non-core pa

Re: Embedded blocks...

2019-10-31 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:45:43 +0200, lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de wrote: > > Am 31.10.2019 um 21:47 schrieb Yavor Doganov : > > But GCC didn't drop support for GNUstep. It just cannot cope with > > the changes of the language/runtime that are completely under the >

Re: Embedded blocks...

2019-10-31 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:50:23 +, David Chisnall написа: > On 27/10/2019 16:05, Gregory Casamento wrote: >> We are a GNU / FSF project.  Dropping support for GCC would be bad >> political mojo.   There is little we can do to bridge the gap other >> than doing these macros. > > I don't really

Re: Cutting a release?

2019-01-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:29:45 +0100, Gürkan Myczko написа: > On 01.01.2019 18:48, Gregory Casamento wrote: >> The Gorm changes David committed warrant a release of the app. So I >> concur with doing a release. > > Sounds great! Will it happen before 12th Jan 2019? The sooner, the > better. For

Re: Cutting a release?

2019-01-02 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:48:51 +, Ivan Vučica написа: > I realized I'm not sure what transition means. Out of curiosity, is it > the transition from e.g. libgnustep-gui0.26 to libgnustep-gui0.27? Yes, that's a library transition. The Debian Release team "acks" a transition when the new

Re: Cutting a release?

2019-01-01 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 01 Jan 2019 23:28:35 +, Ivan Vučica написа: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 9:43 PM Yavor Doganov wrote: >> I believe it's too late for that. >> > I could cut a release this weekend, and then we do another one by the > end of the month. It is probably doa

Re: Cutting a release?

2019-01-01 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:24:29 +0100, Gürkan Myczko написа: > I think it would be great to have that new release for the next Debian > release which is going to happen soon: I believe it's too late for that. GUI would need its SONAME bumped which would mean we'll have to do a transition, but the

Re: Out-of-tree builds?

2018-03-20 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:04:15 +, David Chisnall написа: > For most projects, I would do this by using out-of-tree builds, but > this doesn’t appear to work for GNUstep. Is there a mechanism for > doing this that I can’t find, or is it just a limitation of the > build system? It is easy to add

Re: strange issue with Mutable Dictionary

2018-03-16 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:57:53 +0100, Riccardo Mottola написа: > The crashes happen either when the pool is released in line 224 and > NSData or in the setter of one of the properties, as the first stack > or with a crash at line 181, which is still inside this method. You haven't posted a

NSConnection/NSInvocation compiler optimization

2018-01-18 Thread Yavor Doganov
In Source/Makefile.postamble, optimization is explicitly turned off for NSConnection.m and NSInvocation.m. This was made in August 1999 (commit 90f2d8a). I can imagine the reasoning but is it still relevant? I tried a build with default (-O2) optimization and I don't observe any regression, at

Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

2018-01-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:31:34 +1100, Svetlana Tkachenko написа: > On a source based distro configuration options are exposed to the > users but on Debian they are not and they may need to be separate > packages. We can build multiple binary packages from one source package. This was David's

Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

2018-01-01 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 02 Jan 2018 07:37:35 +, David Chisnall написа: > On 2 Jan 2018, at 07:29, Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> wrote: >> В Tue, 02 Jan 2018 07:20:39 +, David Chisnall написа: >>> Is there a good reason why we release -back as a separate package? >> &g

Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

2018-01-01 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:07:11 +, Ivan Vučica написа: > Cutting no-changes releases of back is not fun. Do we need to do it? > Will -gui reject -back with mismatching minor version? Debian's current packaging requires full match between the GUI/Back versions, but that's easy to change (I

Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

2017-12-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:24:27 +, David Chisnall написа: > On 11 Dec 2017, at 21:04, Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Superfluous bumping is not so bad as retaining the SONAME if >> there's ABI breakage but it's not a good practice and leads to >> unnecessary b

Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

2017-12-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:45:04 +, Richard Frith-Macdonald написа: > As far as I know there should be nothng that breaks binary > compatibility (so I'd have made it 1.25.1), but if people want a new > library version number I don't see any problem with that. Please don't bump the SONAME if the

Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

2017-12-08 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:55:14 +, Ivan Vučica написа: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017, 10:18 Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> wrote: > I will sign the tag with my personal key (otherwise GH would not display > it as verified) and I will sign the tarball with the shared maintainer > ke

Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

2017-12-08 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 07 Dec 2017 22:57:39 +, Ivan Vučica написа: > Actual signature *will* be performed with the correct maintainer GPG > key! I don't quite understand this sentence -- does it mean that the actual tag/release at the official GitHub GNUstep repository will be signed with the GNUstep

Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

2015-10-09 Thread Yavor Doganov
[Apologies for replying to an old message.] В Fri, 29 May 2015 13:50:19 +0200, Luboš Doležel написа: > Dne 29.5.2015 13:40, Stefan Bidigaray napsal: >> OK, so people have said Savannah doesn't fulfill our needs, but never >> explained how so? And how github manages to do so? Ivan mentioned >>

Re: GNUstep on OpenBSD alpha

2014-07-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:49:38 +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach написа: DKEndpointManager.m:282: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2077 ICE is a GCC bug; please report it with the preprocessed source. Which version is this? I think I've seen that before, thought it was fixed long

Re: Suggestion... renaming base, gui to Foundation and AppKit

2010-09-21 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:04:15 -0400, Gregory Casamento написа: 3) The original reason we did this was due to the fear of the Trademark police, If you decide to go on with renaming, I'd suggest to recheck with the FSF lawyers, just in case. but other projects which have attempted to implement

Re: Suggestion... renaming base, gui to Foundation and AppKit

2010-09-21 Thread Yavor Doganov
David Chisnall wrote: On 21 Sep 2010, at 10:03, Yavor Doganov wrote: but other projects which have attempted to implement Cocoa have used the names Foundation and AppKit without any problems. That is not a reason to feel safe Yes it is. The Doctrine of Latches applies. True

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

2010-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:30:51 +0100, Nicola Pero написа: FHS is a Linux 'standard', not a *NIX standard. Actually, the FHS requires the same ;-) Right. Also, it's incorrect to call it Linux standard. The FHS is derived from the GNU Coding Standards, which is perhaps the oldest document

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

2010-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:16:41 +0100, David Chisnall написа: On 17 Sep 2010, at 09:20, Nicola Pero wrote: The public NSBundle API works fine with FHS. That is my impression too. The problem seems to be that frameworks are no longer found in the frameworks directory, Probably a bug in the

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

2010-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:36:08 +0100, David Chisnall написа: On 17 Sep 2010, at 09:52, Yavor Doganov wrote: Right. Also, it's incorrect to call it Linux standard. Sorry, a GNU/Linux standard or a GNU standard then (since it seems to be used by HURD and Debian/kFreeBSD too). No, the GNU

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

2010-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:36:08 +0100, David Chisnall написа: I know that we have packages for Arch, for Gentoo, for FreeBSD, for OpenBSD, and for NetBSD that do not use the FHS layout. BTW, both Gentoo and Arch have committed to adhere to the FHS, so having non-compliant packages is only a proof

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

2010-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
SPUeNTRUP - Kai Henningsen wrote: Am Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:00:37 + (UTC) schrieb Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org: The FHS people *tried* to make it widely adopted by soliciting input from many parties, and failed. They probably failed because they didn't listen at all to that input. Well

Re: Interesting discussion on gcc about objc

2010-09-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:58:20 +0100, David Chisnall написа: GNU ObjC has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort to upgrade the GNU ObjC front end to ObjC 2.0. And there are other issues: Translation: The GNU project doesn't care about GNUstep. Wrong. A plea for help has been at a

Re: gmodel loading appears to be broken

2010-08-29 Thread Yavor Doganov
Fred Kiefer wrote: Am 28.08.2010 19:52, schrieb Yavor Doganov: Another question: Is the fix going to be ABI-compatible with 0.18? If you insist on ABI compatibility the best thing I can do is this horrible hack. Well, I'm not in the position to insist on anything. I prefer the fix

Re: gmodel loading appears to be broken

2010-08-29 Thread Yavor Doganov
Fred Kiefer wrote: Am 29.08.2010 11:13, schrieb Yavor Doganov: But if you want the fix included in 0.18.1, it has to be ABI-compatible with 0.18.0 according to the GNUstep release policy... This change definitely is ABI compatible. Yes, I meant to say ...if you want a clean fix included

gmodel loading appears to be broken

2010-08-28 Thread Yavor Doganov
Cenon 3.83 works correctly with GUI 0.16, but with 0.18 dies with Cenon: Uncaught exception NSInternalInconsistencyException, reason: Abstract model loader. Breakpoint 1, -[NSException raise] (self=0x8594358, _cmd=0xb7b387c0) at NSException.m:946 946 NSException.m: Няма такъв файл или

About ChangeLogs

2010-08-26 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:12:36 +0100, David Chisnall написа: [2] So can the rant about how the ChangeLog requires developers to remember to manually track stuff that svn tracks automatically. ChangeLogs are required by the GNU Coding Standards. (It is not necessary to maintain them manually,

Re: Problem running hello-objc-gnustep example in gettext

2010-08-13 Thread Yavor Doganov
On GNU systems at least, with modern versions of gnustep-base, there is no need to set NSLanguages at all, so I stopped doing it except on hosts with ancient GNUstep installatons. Base is smart enough to infer the correct setting from the system/user default locale, even respecting the

Re: fix for 30094 breaks HURD compilation again

2010-06-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
Riccardo Mottola wrote: Yavor's patch is in theory correct, but in practice wrong. GLIBC is a mess to work with. It becomes a mess if you start playing with defines, yes. Furthermore, you have to adjust them for every new porting target. I already tried to make the original code which used

Re: fix for 30094 breaks HURD compilation again

2010-06-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
David Chisnall wrote: I'm not sure why this explicit cast should be required. The type of both of these should be pthread_mutex_t. foo.c: == #include pthread.h int main (void) { pthread_mutex_t foo; foo =

Re: fix for 30094 breaks HURD compilation again

2010-06-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
Yavor Doganov wrote: Riccardo Mottola wrote: now using __GLIBC__ causes troubles on Hurd with GCC (and possibly other platforms which I don't remember), The Debian archive is full of code like this, so it's strange that it causes trouble. What is the specific error? Without having

Re: fix for 30094 breaks HURD compilation again

2010-06-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
Riccardo Mottola wrote: Well, I just check for GNU and GLIBC as http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/porting/PORTING suggests, which is a debian porting document! Right, and I already corrected myself. I confirm my initial patch attached to the bug is not OK. (For the record, I still retain my

Re: [PATCH] GSXML: Respect XML catalogs

2010-05-13 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:17:23 +0100, Niels Grewe написа: some months back, somebody complained that gnustep-base took ages for them to build on a machine without network access. The problem was that the gsdoc DTDs were not yet installed and autogsdoc was trying to fetch them over the net, making

Re: [PATCH] GSXML: Respect XML catalogs

2010-05-13 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 13 May 2010 16:24:09 +0200, Niels Grewe написа: It was committed in revision 29654. Ah, thanks. I realize now why I thought it was not merged -- the log message says Patch by Niels Grewe and there is no corresponding ChangeLog entry. (The frivolous violation of the established (and

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:42:41 +0100, Fred Kiefer написа: if there are participate in a bigger GNU envelop project? Just to mention that since GNUstep is part of the GNU project, it is perfectly possible to participate under the GNU umbrella. ___

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-08 Thread Yavor Doganov
David Ayers wrote: gnustep-dl2-nox(-dev) EOControl/EOAccess That's OK, but the runtime library package name should embed the soname, e.g. gnustep-dl2-nox-0. Furthermore, we'll get 2 lintian warnings `package-name-doesnt-match-soname' while if it is libeoaccess there would be only one (for

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-08 Thread Yavor Doganov
Matt Rice wrote: Sorry It just hit me that both DBModeler and GDL2 palette use the EOModeler library which might pose a problem for making EOModeler 'private' That's not a problem at all -- both will link against EOModeler with RPATH, which will be shipped in the same binary package.

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-07 Thread Yavor Doganov
Matt Rice wrote: Likewise, this should be libeointerface0/libeointerface-dev. But you didn't mention EOModeler. Is its place here, too? Ahh, yeah I forgot about that library, no EOModeler can go in its own libeomodeler But the goal is to decrease the number of the binary packages as

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-04 Thread Yavor Doganov
Matt Rice wrote: Yavor mentions that (although they're intended to be public libraries, nothing in GNUstep uses them) Oh, that was misleading. What I meant is that no package in Debian currently uses gnustep-dl2 (its libraries or whatever). but DBModeler isn't really a standalone

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-04 Thread Yavor Doganov
Federico Giménez Nieto wrote: 2010/1/4 Matt Rice ratm...@gmail.com: Ahh, sorry I meant the 'package GDL2Palette bundle with DBModeler', adding a dependency on the existing Gorm.app package to it, Yes, in my opinion it should be enough to add a dependency on gorm.app to the new

Re: Question about GNUstep DL2

2010-01-04 Thread Yavor Doganov
(Typo fixes to avoid possible confusion; sorry.) Явор Доганов wrote: Every shared library (in /lib and /usr/lib) should be packaged as libfooN and libfoo-dev (in rare cases libfoo2-dev). s/libfoo2-dev/libfooN-dev/ that use the library to depend on libfoo-dev and to automatically

Re: Emacs 23 and GNUstep

2009-08-13 Thread Yavor Doganov
. This patch reverts the (good) changes to support :script/:lang/:otf in the NS font driver, because they rely on the NSFontDescriptor class which is not implemented in the old version of GNUstep GUI available in gNewSense. Provided by: Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org lisp/term/ns-win.el | 13

Re: NSCalendar and NSLocale support

2009-06-16 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:54:49 +0200, Riccardo Mottola написа: On the other hand, on Debian, if you have gworkspace you want libsqlite which on Debian is configured to use libicu so you end up using it. This change was reverted recently:

Re: Getting reviews and submitting patches

2009-06-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:56:40 +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald написа: On 14 Jun 2009, at 17:20, Dave MacLachlan wrote: Google has signed off on having them submitted to the project, so the legal steps are taken care of already. Including copyright assignment to the FSF? That's a requirement

Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

2009-05-20 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I think what you are describing (as the correct way to do things) is what GNUstep already tries to do ... see http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_release_policy for the actual release policy details. On

Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

2009-05-20 Thread Yavor Doganov
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 20 May 2009, at 11:53, Yavor Doganov wrote: The SONAME of a shared library should be bumped if and only if there is ABI break That's a matter of opinion. Yes, the opinion of the library maintainer(s), which ideally should conform to best practices

Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

2009-03-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:00:19 -0600, Adam Fedor написа: We had a long discussion about this before Yes, I remember it. that ended in the request that stable releases have no ABI or API changes (even additions), so that a developer and user could count on the same set of functionality in a

Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

2009-03-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:53:56 +, David Chisnall написа: It is very easy to have a stable ABI for a procedural API because there is no notion of subclassing. Even with GObject this is not really a problem, as it doesn't really present an OO model. Right you are. Even then, after years of

Re: ABI Compatibility (was Re: Installation woes for the average user...)

2009-03-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:23:25 +0100, Riccardo Mottola написа: If we compare to other projects like glib2, gtk2: fine-grained packages like debian will give you udpates only when necessary Glib/GTK+ have a stable API/ABI throughout the whole lifetime of the GNOME 2 platform. If you upgrade from

Re: Emacs 23.x from CVS 20090228

2009-03-05 Thread Yavor Doganov
Hi Gürkan, A trivial patch for this build failure is available here: http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/2264 ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev

Emacs cannot dump on GNUstep

2008-11-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
[CC-ing emacs-devel instead of bug #1171, as this is a general problem.] At Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:19:10 -0500, Adrian Robert wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: (better fix the underlying problem and get dumping to work for GNUstep). Does

Re: Next stable release?

2008-06-06 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:10 -0700, Gregory John Casamento написа: So you think we should target the end of the month to make the release? It would be too late for Debian, I'm afraid. According to [1] all libraries will be frozen at the end of this month. Of course we could always ask the

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GDL2 Release for Debian Lenny

2008-06-06 Thread Yavor Doganov
Hubert Chathi wrote: Until the LGPL3/GPL2 issue is resolved, those are the latest versions that we can have in Debian, or else we'd have to get rid of Terminal.app (and a few other packages) from Debian. It's a judgement call. IMVHO we should not hold a major GNUstep update just for this,

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GDL2 Release for Debian Lenny

2008-06-06 Thread Yavor Doganov
Hubert Chathi wrote: Perhaps we should take a quick poll. This is an excellent idea, but how do you expect to do it? The lists this discussion is being carried on have limited audience. Of course the opinion of the gnustep-dev subscribers is valuable, and that of the main GNUstep maintainers

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:32:43 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа: I don't think that the combined work still violations LGPLv3, because section 4 of the LGPLv3 allows you to release the combined works under any license that you choose, provided that you do certain things, and the library itself can

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:30:52 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа: Just a thought that came to me, that I thought I'd throw out: one possibility is to dual-license the GNUstep libraries under bath GPLv2 and LGPLv3 or later. This would allow us to keep GPLv2 applications (the two big ones that I know

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:42:15 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:08:52 + (UTC), Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://price.sourceforge.net/exception.html What problems do you see with it? IMVHO such an exception *might* fix one side of the problem, but the resulting

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-11 Thread Yavor Doganov
Thanks for raising the issue, and the summary. В Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:51:08 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа: or http://price.sourceforge.net/exception.html I am not sure that such an exception is sufficient to eliminate the incompatibility problem -- in fact, I fear that it may not have a legal

Re: GNUstep desktop?

2008-01-08 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:44:38 +0100, Fred Kiefer написа: http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions A asked some time ago about this but nobody replied: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.general/29151 This specific text was not written by RMS, but by one of the

Re: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-10-20 Thread Yavor Doganov
Is there any development regarding this? ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev

Re: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-10-20 Thread Yavor Doganov
Adam Fedor wrote: Last I heard, I had given RMS what we wanted to say and he said he would get some one to put it on the web site. But then I forgot about it and I've lost the email from him. Perhaps I should follow up. I spoke with John Sullivan and he confirmed that he was supposed to do

Re: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-09-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:30:14 +0200, Chris Vetter написа: however, you *should* keep in mind that originally GNUstep was supposed to be the development (and desktop?) environment of choice for the GNU operating system... This is still more or less true -- with GNOME being steadily absorbed by

Re: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-09-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: This is ideological thinking. Free software is extremely ideological, political and social by nature. The ultimate goal of the GNU Project is to change the society. But if you want to achieve an objective in practice you'll have to think practically and

Re: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-09-12 Thread Yavor Doganov
Helge Hess wrote: Free commercial apps are welcome, but not proprietary ones. Obviously this is non-sense. If proprietary apps wouldn't be welcome, GNUstep would be GPL, not LGPL. GNUstep is LGPL to explicitly allow for that. Let me rephrase it: the fact that the core GNU libraries are