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From: | Eric Dahlman |
Subject: | Re: The Path of GNUstep (Was: Re: Gnustep + mac + windows? Possib le?) |
Date: | Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:12:05 -0500 |
On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Pete French wrote:
i'm sure i'll get caught in the hellish blaze that is likely to ensue, but i have to agree with tim on this one. yes, cross-platform apps/tools/etc. are nice & nifty, but how many people are concerned about getting GNUstep apps running on Windows compared to, say, the number of people requesting somesort of nifty theme mechanism?...though which is more useful ? Themes are pointless window dressing. No point in it looking good if itdoesnt run the code. Cross platform abilities is our best Unique Selling Pointreally. Not only is it a fantastic ddevelopment environment but you can write once and then deploy on UNIX / Linux / OSX / Windows.
As one those developers you could target let me say that the cross platform possibilities are the reason I came to ask the question that started the thread which has morphed into this thread. In the project I am working on we have supported Macs because that is our historic user base, windows because it was mandated and Unix because we wanted to. Now I am going the whole cocoa route in my day job and it would be great if I could cary that experience over to using GNUStep,
As a relatively bright programmer who has worked in several different environments I can say that Objective-C and OpenStep are different enough that it requires significant effort to wrap one's brain around it. As a community you need to provide a way to get in new blood, schools and industry are not creating new NeXTStep programmers, to my mind poaching programmers from Aqua/Cocoa is your only hope.
I think that you should also look into providing support for all of the trendy eye-candy that you can. Look at Sawfish I was amazed at the number of people who tried to learn lisp because they wanted to tweak that window manager, the sole motivation was eye candy.
Just my $0.02, -Eric
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