Re: ANNOUNCE: Request For Proposals

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:18:07 -0700
"Chris B. Vetter" <chrisv@web4inc.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:34:10 -0500
> "Mondragon, Ian" <ian.mondragon@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> > some good ideas, some serious flame bait <grin>.  while debian
> > may be "the GNU distribution", i can't say that focusing on
> > tying GNUstep into a particular linux distro is something
> > that i would support myself. especially since i haven't run
> > _any_ linux distribution in a looooong time (freebsd has been
> > my OS of choice for years).  i think transparency accross
> > OS's would be better for the cause than some whispered,
> > distro-centric, elitist attitude.
> 
> Thank goodness, I'm not the only one - that's exactly what I
> thought.

You are definitly not alone, I completely agree!!!

I also think that Gorm as well as the workspace are very critical to the 
success of GNUstep!

> Without any intention of starting a flame-war, but tying
> GNUstep to Linux too closely will certainly not help, as it
> will scare people on different platforms away. I already talked
> to some people which initially were interested but turned their
> focus elsewhere, because they found it too hard to install
> GNUstep on Solaris and HP/UX (ok, ok, I know). Well, I do
> run it on Slowlaris and HP/UX (bless you) and it's not as
> straight-forward as it is for, say, FreeBSD and, of course,
> Linux...

What about anyone working on Irix 6.5 support? What would it take to make it 
work there (is ffcall the only issue?)? It worked on previous system versions, 
so.... 
 
> About transparancy, I already feel very uncomfortable that
> GNUstep relies on libraries, like libxml2, which originally
> were written for GNOME.
> But maybe I'm just another zealot - I prefer a clean system,
> nothing GTK/GNOME or KDE on MY machines...

Well, as long as it is a good library, supported by the FSF and not designed 
primarily to be used by GTK/Gnome only I do not see a reason against using it?!
 
-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
Software Engineer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.