I lied

[J. Jordan]

Ok, I lied I'm posting again.

I have not asked anyone to do anything except admit that GNUstep is 
more than just a development environment.

I truly apologize if I have offended any of you.

There have been several allusions to limited resources, I am not 
asking anyone to change or redirect their efforts.  I have probably 
spent 150 hours over the last couple of weeks trying to get (I fear to 
use the term here) a workable desktop, creating icons, making 
application wrappers writing menu definition files, modifying 
applications and searching for information.  I don't have a day job, 
I'm retired, I was looking for a project that would retain my interest 
and could be useful when I go back and get my Master's degree and 
perhaps when I start a second career teaching.

When I suggest that GNUstep.org could be enhanced to provide a 
repository of patches, supporting files and howto's, I am not asking 
anyone to do those things, I am asking for permission to do those 
things myself and hopefully in the process get some other people as 
excited as I am about the possibilities this environment presents.

I am trying to learn to program in C at the moment, I used to be a 
pretty decent Pascal/VB/VBA and database programmer, I have been in 
the computer industry since I got my first job in 1978 repairing 
TRS-80s.  I am learning C so that I can then learn Objective-C so that 
I can help more with the  programming side of the effort.


To those of you who have answered my questions, I appreciate your 
efforts.  To those of you that are ridiculing me, too bad, I am 
interested in this project and I don't give up that easily.

Love me or hate me you will have to admit that there has been more 
interest on this mailing list in the last three days than in the
last three years, and interest is not just people outside the project.

Most sincerely and respectfully,

J. Jordan