RE:[OT] GentooLinux GNUstep Developer

[Jason Clouse]

On 2003-11-26 14:50:08 +0100 Ian Jones <ian@digital-bushido.org> wrote:
> I don't believe what you are saying about this being a chance for 
> Gnustep to 
> be used by more people than developers.
> Gentoo seems to be aimed at higher level linux folks / developers 
> than a lot 
> of other distributions. I don't think it is really to be considered a 
> user 
> distribution? I agree that it would be great to get GNUstep easy to 
> install 
> and for people to try and use, but I'm not sure this distribution is 
> the one 
> that could put GNUstep infront of a large 'user' possible developer 
> audience.

To get GNUstep in front of a large user audience, it has to be 
complete and a snap to install on EVERY distribution.

Personally, I love Gentoo.  But when I contacted the portage 
maintainers about building up some ebuilds for the entire GNUstep 
frameworks and application tree (like GNOME and KDE have on there) all 
I heard back was the sound of chirping crickets.