RE: GNUstep version number(s) (was: Re: GNUstep article (was: Re: gnustep compared to other toolkits))

[Mondragon, Ian]

i think mr. leeuw is very correct in this.  granted, this is not as simple a
task to do as it is to talk about, but having the organization broken into 2
main components such as this would be highly benificial, and would most
likely clear up alot of confusion.

- ian mondragon

> And now back again to the subject: version numbers. I don't see any
> difficulty
> with different version numbers, but I do see difficulty with all the
> different
> naming conventions. Imagine you are new. You know linux a bit. You have
> seen
> GORM and KDE and you take a look at GNUstep, here we go:
> Foundation Kit, AppKit, LaunchPad, gnustep-base, gnustep-make,
> gnustep-gui,
> gnustep-xdps, gnustep-xgps and some are part of one and some are not.
> 
> Let's clear things. I think we should have two and only two parts a
> on-gui part
> and a gui-part. Meaning you have GNUstep LaunchPad, which contains
> gnustep-make
> and gnustep-base. It is one download and one version.
> Then we have GNUstep ApplicationPad that contains gnustep-gui and all
> the
> backend bundles. One download one version.
>