Re: Objective-C standard

[Andreas Höschler]

> > Right now GNUstep based software can only be sold as part of a 
> > project that includes setting up an application server (installing 
> > GNUstep from sources). As soon as we see GNUstep based commercial 
> > (killer) applications (that can be used with any client device/os 
> > thanks to SGD), we have market acceptance for Objective-C/GNUstep.
>
> IMHO, you won't see commercial killer apps because right now it's 
> impossible to deploy fully embedded applications. Setting up daemons 
> and/or GNUstep extra files needs user interaction or even can't be 
> done without root rights. All this in a century where Mac OS X 
> developers get flamed because they ask publicly how to use an 
> Installer at all. Starting off right where your app plunks down after 
> download is the current state of the art.

You need root privileges to install MacOSX on a Mac and you must have 
an admin account if you want to install software in /Applications. So 
it's ok if root privileges are required to install some magic software 
that converts a Solaris 10 standard installation into a fully featured 
GNUstep desktop. I of course would prefer if Sun did this (option 
during the os installation), but I doubt I can convince them to do so 
shortly [ :-) ], so we have to define a deployment platform for our 
apps on our own and provide whatever mechanism to set this up easily. 
It's the task that Apple is going through whenever they release a new 
os. They fork the darwin code do extensive tests, add the Cocoa, Aqua 
stuff, do some more tests and create a bootable installer for 
everything. Hard work indeed, but...

Regards,

  Andreas