Re: GNUstep System Overview

[Gregory Casamento]

I am a member of the "source crew".

--- "Robert E. Hartley" <robert.hartley@ics.com> wrote:
> Wow,
> 
> You guys have done very, very nice work on this!
> 
> I have been  wanting to do an article for Linux Journal on GNU Step for
> while now, but I think you have a great start here. It might be better if
> there were writers who are members of the source crew to do the article.
> 
> Originally, I was thinking of writing something that demonstrates:
> - moving source from NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP to test GNU Step (perhaps from the
> Emerald CD sources)
> - developing applications with a working snapshot of Gorm
> - how a developer could use GNU Step as a the multiplatform solution to
> Mac OS/X
> 
> Finally, my pet project: getting GNU Step applications built for a PDA
> like the iPAQ.
> 
> People look at me strangely when I mention this, since the alternatives
> include the BlackDown JDK, PocketLinux, Sun's KVM, Gtk, Qt, FLTK, and
> Motif.  Why would someone want to go with a rare API to do the frameworks
> and GUI?
> 
> My reasons would include:
> - it is elegantly implemented and it uses Objective C
> - it has a solid foundation
> - the development environment is very nice
> - it has the Java like capabilities of distributed objects and
> introspection with the performance of C language code.
> - Apple is using it, so unless in a couple of weeks there is some
> announcement of an Apple PDA development environment, there is a
> completely unclaimed niche that would be great for GnuStep.
> 
> Anyways, congratulations on this.
> 
> If you are interested in doing an article on this, please let me know.  I
> would like to avoid bumping heads with you on this.  If not, I would love
> to go ahead with it myself.
> 
> The one advantage I can see to having an outsider like myself write the
> article is that I can toot the GnuStep horn louder without having to be
> as modestly bashful as would be expected of the orginators.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Gregory Casamento and I am proud to bring you a pre-release of the
> > GNUstep System Overview.
> > You made a great choice by using GNUstep as your default development
> > environment.... ;) Oops, marketing mode....
> >
> > This is the first public version, please comment and let us know what
> > you think, what might be better and if you wish: contribute. This will
> > probably be a work in progress for some time.
> >
> > The document can be found at:
> > http://www.made-it.com/GNUstep/SystemOverview/site/index.html
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Dennis Leeuw
> 
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Gregory John Casamento

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