Re: Central GNUstep software index?

[Francisco Oltra]

On 19-Apr-08, at 10:57 AM, Riccardo wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 2008-04-18 08:41:59 +0200 "hns@computer.org" <hns@computer.org>  
> wrote:
>
> > One key problem of GNUstep is IMHO that it is quite difficult to find
> > application software projects. There is GAP, some other (partially
> > abandoned) projects and some announcements apear here on this list
> > from time to time.
> Fully agreed.

And i agree, too.  sorry, to step in, but i feel  i have to give my  
humble opinion from my perspective as a gnustep user.
Here's another proposal, don't know if it was considered or not. Since  
one of GNUstep's goals it s to be portable across platforms, and that  
portability is obtained by recompilation and not binary distribution,  
and given that nowadays everyone loves a central software distribution  
system where you can avoid  to look for the dependencies, download,  
unpack  and build them by hand, wouldn't it be great to have the  
equivalent of the BSD port system but based on the GNUstep system  
instead of a specific OS, only requiring you have the gnustep core  
installed ? another good examples to look at are Ocaml's Godi or  
Perl's CPAN . Does that make sense?

Then i know some will i answer why bother if you can leave  
distribution of binaries (or source) to the os package distribution,  
but then it's good to remember not everyone runs ubuntu linux, and  
packages getting dropped it's another issue.

Cheers,

Francisco