gnustep / solaris only? / win32 - cygnwin / steptalk vs Fscript / darwin/x86 vs vmware

[david faibish]

seems like dumb questions, but ...

1a) since solaris seems to be your reference platform!, have the 
solaris/x86 binaries been tested with solaris8?
1b) is there no prospect for a a native win32 implemetation? ... it is 
completely absent from your how2 list - 
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/GNUstep-HOWTO
1c) why is the cygwin-xfree/86 release described as (especially) 
unstable ... while ALL the other platforms dont seem to have this problem?
1d) i saw a reference on one of the gnustep related sites to vmware -- 
but not sure where that url is, and not sure if it was for bsd/x86 as a 
host or target -- could you please clarify?

2) your site is this first one i have seen to mention a native scripting 
language (steptalk) for objectiveC ... up until now, i thought only 
FScript was the only native scripting language

3a) is anyone giving some thought to packaging a distro (installer, 
configuration manager, GCC compiler/make/link etc, the IDE, userland 
apps, etc) that is a "simple" as some of the better linux distros? ... 
all the packages seem to require an extensive amount of analysis just to 
figure out what does what / goes where / how integrated ... your FAQ 
indicates that this is a low priority  goal -- 
http://www.gnustep.org/information/userfaq_1.html#SEC10 -- but it seems 
to me that it should be a KEY priority if you want to attract people who 
are BUSY with alot of other stuff.


4a) has anyone actually getting gnustep to run on darwin/x86 ?!
4b) if someone could combine gnustep.darwin with the (reports say it is 
flaky) mac-rom emulator on x86, with a build of "lindows" for darwin ... 
this would be an awesome combo!

sorry i'm asking these questions directly instead of to some mailing 
list somewhere, but i've got my hands full with cocoa on osx, and was 
hoping for a 'clear path' to gnustep - but having not found that, 
hopefully you guys can clue me in a bit!

thanx:dlf