Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

[Riccardo Mottola]

Thom,

Thom Cherryhomes wrote:
> Why is it? I am trying to put a very visual and demonstrative face on 
> what I am experiencing, in the hope of disrupting the community out of 
> its apparent complacency. 

you claim apparent complacency. Let me state some clear things.

Summed up very tightly, your video is about building an application 
natively on windows using ProjectCenter.

A couple of years ago, when I started working on the applications I now 
deploy on windows, there was no WinUX theme at all. Most application 
wouldn't even start, or would crash and look absurdly bad.
Now as your video itself shows, there is "something".

ProjectCenter itself was extremely crashy on Unix too: syntax coloring 
was mostly broken, as was class parsing or parenthesis highlighting. It 
was easy to get it to crash with certain files and method names.
Now it improved a lot. It also allows, even if crudely, to use compilers 
different than gcc (e.g. egcs or clang) it allows you to use gmake on 
NetBSD, it allows you to at east "try your luck" on windows.

I would say improvement on all fronts and a constant one.. I can think 
of only very "few" regressions. Thus you can't speak of stagnation, but 
only of slow progress.
Why is there slow progress? because few people area actively identifying 
and resolving bugs.

Riccardo