Re: Good news from FOSDEM: article in the c't magazin

[Dennis Leeuw]

Hi Stefan,

Gregory and I have once started an article that should have been the
introduction to GNUstep.
We however never finished it. Maybe it can be of help to you:
http://www.made-it.com/GNUstep/SystemOverview/site/

Greetings,

Dennis Leeuw

Stefan Böhringer wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> thanks again for all the feedback. I will pick up a suggestion from Fred
> to continue the discussion in private email. I will send an initial
> email to all persons who contacted me either privately or on the list
> concerning the article. All following emails should be cc-ied to these
> persons. If you want to participate in discussing the c't article,
> please contact me in private email. In the beginning we should perhaps
> stick with English as the language. At some point it might however be
> useful to switch to German when details of wording are discussed. The
> group will be informed if relevant results have been reached.
>
> I want to summarize the additional points raised so far:
>
> Manual Guesdon pointed to GNUstepWeb as an example of GNUstep usability
> (base).
>
> Fred Kiefer stressed portability and wants to see GORM mentiond. He also
> pointed out that the article should also be critical, not raising false
> expectations - a very valid point IMO. He suggested to prepare an
> intermediate GNUstep release for this article. This probably needs
> further discussion.
>
> Nicola Pero pointed to GNUstep-base as the hightlight of GNUstep so far.
> He gave the example of NSString illustrating the GNUstep advantage. I
> planned to include an Objective-C section in the article which should
> make clear that dynamic binding has more ups than downs and show
> example(s) from Foundation. I'm confident that we can finally convey
> that message. However, this article should not duplicate material
> concerning Cocoa or Openstep extensively, since these topics have been
> discussed previously in that journal (even if not in depth).
>
> Many others pointed to commercial projects and offered help in
> discussing/preparing the article.
>
> Thank you very much, best wishes,
>
>         Stefan
>
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