Re: project goal Re: Release schedule

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > That's true unfortunately. Personally I notice that I get almost no
> > feedback wrt ProjectCenter (nor any other app I wrote). Now either 
> > they
> > are perfect (...) or nobody uses them really, I guess it is the
> > latter... :-| The question now is how can we change that and/or who 
> > can
> > help us with this?
>
> Personally, I don't think there is anything that could be done to make 
> me
> use PC. I'm not saying that PC is bad, but from my perspective it 
> doesn't
> fill a need that exists. I say the same thing about PB on OPENSTEP, by 
> the
> way.

As I said before, PC is currently far away from being mature and 
feature complete. But I wonder then why people are always claiming that 
the duo PC+Gorm could be a good reason for using GNUstep and at the 
same time it is so little in use. The article in Linux Journal did not 
even mention ProjectCenter...

BTW arguments for PC would be automatic makefile creation, easier file 
management/handling, seamless CVS integration via a GUI or a much nicer 
debugging experience in the future, ...

> > It is IMHO too late for GNUstep to compete with KDE or Gnome, but it 
> > is
> > (hopefully) not too late for a GNUSTEP/linux or a GNUSTEP/FreeBSD or
> > even a GNUSTEP/Hurd (kind of the real successor to OPENSTEP/Mach) :-)
>
> Nonsense. Unlike the proprietary software world, we don't have to worry
> much about the other guys.

Nonsense. Just like in the proprietary software world we are in 
competition with other projects, and from looking at the visibility we 
have, the number of GNUstep developers and so on, we pretty much lost 
this one, it seems (unless you are OK with GNUstep being a library set 
written by a few developers to be used by a few others...).

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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