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FW: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!)
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Mondragon , Ian |
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FW: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!) |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:16:41 -0600 |
i'm sorry, but i don't think this is exactly true. what will gnustep gain?
how many people will *really* run gnustep apps on a windows box? while the
gnustep community seems to have grown somewhat in the past several years,
it's still been fairly slow growth and there are a lot of people in the
linux/bsd communities that have never heard of/paid attention to
gnustep...and that doesn't hold much promise for the windows community at
large.
yes - we'd gain an edge by having the most extreme form of
cross-platform-ness around, but i feel it's misleading and unfair to even
think that we would have a sudden flock of developers and users simply
because of windows compatibility. as long as you stick to the
Foundation/AppKit, most things will compile on Mac OS X, but the
loudly-touted cross platform apps/tools in this area are few and far between
(with GNUmail being the most notable) - and i'm just seeing it for what it
truly is: a win, but not considered by enough people as significant as it
should be. so if we already have a more applicable form of
cross-platform-ness (linux/bsd -> OS X), without the severe bump in
momentum, why should we think that a linux/bsd -> windows application would
give us even as much?
- ian
-----Original Message-----
Besides, Windows won't die if we ignore it, but GNUstep will gain a LOT of
momentum if it runs on Windows.
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FW: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!),
Mondragon , Ian <=
Re: FW: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!), Hank Grabowski, 2003/12/04