Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Helge Hess]

On 05.12.2003, at 01:50, Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote:
> > > But do we need it to look like native windows such that you dont 
> > > even know it is
> > > GNUstep? I agree that GNUstep should be cross platform but it is not
> > Users don't need to know it's GNUstep. They don't care. You're 
> > missing the point here, and seem to be doing it rather consistently.
>
> You like objective-c and you want to be able to write once and compile 
> everywhere.
> I do get that point. Its not about GNUstep anymore.

Well, personally I do like Foundation and AppKit a lot. I do not care 
about "write once", since I think that this is not possible, yet I do 
care about "write 75% once". If I can share the business logic since it 
only requires gstep-base, I'm fine. If I can share 75% of my UI because 
the UI resembles AppKit as far as viable on the target UI, I'm happy as 
well.
All that is still GNUstep for me. Just like GDL or gstep-web which are 
completely platform agnostic.

Anyway, I still recommend that gstep-gui is dumped because it will 
never be finished and solves the problem of no one ;-) Wrap gtk+ or KDE 
on Linux, wrap Win32 on Windows, wrap Cocoa on MacOSX - well, got 
something wrong on the last one ;-)
Oh yes, flames on me ... ;-)

> Just like the mozilla suite. Just better implementation.

Well, "Just better implementation" can imply a lot.

Eg GNOME Evolution is supposed to be 700.000+ lines of code. I think 
the same can be done in about 100.000- LOC in Cocoa and yet provide 
more and better functionality as well as superior UI.

regards,
  Helge
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