Re: GNUstep roadmap (was Re: [Suggestion] GNUstep-test for quality control)

[Helge Hess]

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
wrote:
> Rennaissance is great, but doesn't make the difference. Unfortunately.
>
> Maybe it would if we had a gui editor for it...

Well, this is absolutely a non-issue. This was demonstrated by Windows, 
GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, ... Having a visual editor does help your for 
VisualBasic-type of programmers.
"Real programmers" ;-), can (and usually want to!) write UI code in 
text form. The easier that is, the better. IMHO XUL is *very* good 
here, Renaissance is a first step towards that.

> Nicola wants to produce a gui editor for renaissance ... I think it 
> would be really nice if Gregory and he could get together to leverage 
> all the work on Gorm to support Renaissance as a backend file format 
> for Gorm, eventually replacing the current format so that files would 
> be portable.

That would be very nice.

> Of all the applications that I can see which might get us real notice 
> within the Apple developer community, a superior replacement for 
> InterfaceBuilder, which would run on MacOS, GNU/Linux, BSD etc  *and* 
> produce stored GUI information in a format portable between all these 
> systems seems the best bet.

Well, actually I agree with this. Something which is easily extensible. 
Like Eclipse.

But on the other side, this is hardly a goal for the GNUstep project? 
Its just one application and framework project, lets call it 
Renaissance.[app|framework] ;-)
The GNUstep project IMHO should provide the base technology for porting.

regards,
  Helge
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Reich wird man durch das,               was man nicht ausgibt.
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