Re: ANN: GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.2

[David Chisnall]

It's very simple for newcomers:

Install the GNUstep runtime from your operating system's packages, don't think 
about version numbers.  On FreeBSD:

# portinstall gnustep-libobjc

Optionally one of the following:

# portinstall clang
# portinstall clang-devel
# portinstall gcc46

Or use the gcc (4.2.1) from the base system if you only need Objective-C 1 
support.

Or (more likely) install a metapackage for GNUstep and don't care about the 
runtime at all.  If a typical user needs to think about the Objective-C runtime 
at all, let alone its version number, then we've done something quite badly 
wrong elsewhere.

David

On 21 Feb 2011, at 15:24, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

> While I understand the thousands reasons behind the confusion,
> we should make it as simple as possible for newcomers.
> 
> They probably don't know about version numbers by
> Apple (there it is simply part of "some SDK") nor
> GCC nor Debian nor our history...
> 
> My assumption is that they just think "Obj-C 1.0 vs. Obj-C 2.0".
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus


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