Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Philip Mötteli]

Am 04.02.2004 um 15:16 schrieb Florent Pillet:

> I think you have given both the question and the answer. Many Mac 
> developers would jump on GNUStep if it could help them port to 
> Windows. That makes sense: a porting effort to a platform you don't 
> use is interesting only if you're going to benefit from it -- that is, 
> port a commercial or shareware product.

Even services (consulting e. g.) can be interesting.


> Mind you, the interest in porting to Linux is certainly very limited. 
> I won't open a debate about market share, respective platform 
> qualities, etc. but if you're making a commercial product for Mac OS 
> X, your primary porting target is Windows.

That's exactly what I think.


> So it's somewhat a "chicken and egg" problem. There definitely exists 
> a large number of *potential* GNUStep adopters, but the prerequisite 
> is that porting to Windows is possible and viable. Once porting is 
> possible, you'll probably see a large number of apps compiling with 
> GNUStep, and this will also increase the number of apps that become 
> available for other targets (ie GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, etc)

That's exactly, what I want to say.


Re
Phil