Re: airyxOS has a new name: ravynOS

[Marco Cawthorne]

On 2022-08-30 03:54:04 -0700 Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 at 19:53, Riccardo Mottola
> <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
>
> > one of the screenshot "screams" GNUstep, it has the telling "gamma 
> > too
> > dark" NeXT grey default theme.
>
> I can't see that myself, so I am not sure which.

It's the first image on the screenshots page: 
https://ravynos.com/images/airyx_0.3_installer_confirm.png
Which shows the stock GNUstep theme.

> > Most apps however are not native (e.g. firefox) and are wrappend.
>
> I cannot work out what "wrappened" (?) means here. It's not an 
> English word.

He means that Firefox is just using an app bundle wrapper. Similar to 
the ones in the GWorkspace/App_Wrappers directory. So it doesn't link 
against Obj-C or any GNUstep code

> > They say however:
>
> > GNUStep is pretty good and their Cocoa implementation is much further
> > ahead than ours. We use the libobjc2 runtime from it. However, the 
> > way
> > it is packaged, the GS* extension classes, and various other things 
> > made
> > it "less than ideal" for ravynOS. Also I prefer BSD/MIT/Apache-style
> > licensing. That said, I'm open to using it if we can make it work.
>
> > That, plus Wayland, is telling.
>
> Is it? Telling of what?

He compliments how much further along they are in adopting modern 
technologies than GNUstep.
Pushing for Wayland is definitely 'ambitious' to say the least because 
it seems everyone else is somewhat struggling with it. Also GNUstep 
already relies on some of their work (libobjc2) it seems.

Marco Cawthorne