Re: Books probably won't come to GNUstep

[Christopher Culver]

On 2004-04-13 13:08:17 +0200 Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> So the biggest still missing pieces are the NSSearchButton, is anybody working
> on this? and the XML parsing. For the later another level of abstraction
> will be needed to replace it with something from GNUstep.

I hear that GSXML is actually unsuitable for just about anything XML-related. 
What exactly is the problem with it?

> Apart from this we
> would either convert the NIBs to GMODEL or try to convince Gregory to speed
> up the development of NIB loading, which seems not to far away. 

Fantastic, at least then we wouldn't have to provide our own .gorm files.

> And finally
> some cleanup of the code of Books is needed.

When I suggested (kindly) that the author replace "yes" with YES, he never 
responded...

> When I am back home, not
> struggling with a frensh keyboard, I may send you my version of the code to
> hand it on to that reluctant developer. Hopefully this bit of contribution
> changes his attitude to GNUstep.

You might want to contact him yourself, that way he'll get a better idea that 
there's a community behind GNUstep and not me alone.

> Most important: Doyou still regard this application important enough to
> spend our time on? From what I found in the source code I was not to
> impressed, but Inever saw it running.

I think it is important. I planned on doing a library management application 
before, since I want to keep track of my ever-expanding home library, and 
Books seems to be everything I need and then some. I also feel that having 
such a program ported to GNUstep would get some attention for the project, 
because Linux et al. doesn't have anything like this. I never saw it running 
either, but from screenshots and the comments of others it appears to be quite 
useful.

Christopher Culver