Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> I'd make a gui release compatible with (ie implementing all of) an older 
> version of AppKit (probably OSX 10.2).
>    
That is a very good idea and would provide a good milestone. 10.2 
shouldn't be soo hard, I don't know what is missing. I do port quite 
some code between 10.2 and gnustep, but granted I do not use much of 
some Cocoa additions because I don't like them
Mostly I noticed is that our implementations are a bit raw or incomplete 
but present
> I'd not consider the state of the theme engine a show-stopper ... it's an extra 
> API and can be marked as unstable while still having the AppKit  API be stable.
>    
Not a show stopper in terms of features, but I'd consider bad bugs 
stoppers.
> Make a new 'stable' release (this year!) formally declared as OSX10.4 
> compatible ... possibly to be versioned as gnustep-base-10.4 for marketing 
> purposes.
>    
Please don't do that, it sounds so bad! The naming I mean, not the 
statement about compatibility.
It ties us too much to apple, it sounds ugly. Also it makes us... 
immediateley appear obsolete and mark as such forever since we will 
always be behind. When perhaps we already have 10.5 and 10.6 features...
> In this release, move to compatibility with the Apple objc runtime as much as 
> possible.
>    
What does this mean? are we going to require libobjc2 ??


Riccardo