Re: project goal Re: Release schedule

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-04-13 11:21:10 +0000 Philippe C.D. Robert <philippe.robert@gmx.net> 
wrote:

Hello,

> As I said before, PC is currently far away from being mature and feature 
> complete. But I wonder then why people are always claiming that the duo PC+Gorm 
> could be a good reason for using GNUstep and at the same time it is so little 
> in use. The article in Linux Journal did not even mention ProjectCenter...

Well because very few people use PC; all the developers I know prefers to use
vim or emacs... and as GNUmakefiles are really simple to use/write, the urge to 
use
PC just for that is not really here.

> BTW arguments for PC would be automatic makefile creation, easier file 
> management/handling, seamless CVS integration via a GUI or a much nicer 
> debugging experience in the future, ...

But, in the same time, it's right that PC is interessting and could ease the
programming -- and a good CVS integration would be a great plus.
The main problem, is that each time I tried it, it crashes unexpectedly. 
Personnally I didn't had the time to really investigate why.. wich is perhaps
an error, but as I could program without PC, there are more urgent needs...
That's why articles didn't mention it I suppose.

> > Nonsense. Unlike the proprietary software world, we don't have to worry
> > much about the other guys.
>
> Nonsense. Just like in the proprietary software world we are in competition 
> with other projects, and from looking at the visibility we have, the number of 
> GNUstep developers and so on, we pretty much lost this one, it seems (unless 
> you are OK with GNUstep being a library set written by a few developers to be 
> used by a few others...).

Yep ... we are in a competition to attract developers ...

--
Nicolas Roard