Fwd: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal

[Niels Grewe]

(Sorry, forgot to CC the list)

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> Von: Niels Grewe <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal
> Datum: 7. Januar 2014 13:00:12 MEZ
> An: David Chisnall <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> Am 07.01.2014 um 12:06 schrieb David Chisnall <address@hidden>:
> 
>> On 7 Jan 2014, at 10:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I read 'Objective-C 2' as 'we support the features Apple introduced in 
>>>> 2005!  Yay!'
>>> 
>>> You may be unusual in that.
>> 
>> Possibly, but the 2006 WWDC was the first and last time Apple referred to a 
>> set of new Objective-C features as Objective-C 2.  The term Objective-C 2 
>> does not appear in current Apple docs,
> 
> <nitpicking>
> That’s not quite true: Some of the documents still talk about something 
> called "Objective-C 2.0“, most notably the runtime programming guide:
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCRuntimeGuide/Articles/ocrtVersionsPlatforms.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008048-CH106-SW1
> </nitpicking>
> 
> But that doesn’t make the term any more intelligible. I think we should 
> prefer to use a concise description of the feature set over any marketing 
> mumbo jumbo. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niels