Re: fail to compile Terminal from backbone: ‘NSFontManager’ undeclared

[Zhang Weiwu]

Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
> I would suggest against using anything from the Backbone project, 
> except for the fonts if you're using the -art backend.  It's no longer 
> under development and is starting to suffer from bit rot.  
> Preferences.app can be replaced with SystemPreferences.app, 
> Terminal.app is not in the GAP project 
> (http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gap/system-apps/Terminal/?root=gap) 
> and TextEdit really doesn't have a replacement, but GAP is working on 
> porting Bean.app (you can also use Ink.app in the gnustep-examples 
> release).
>
> Good luck
> Stefan
Debian package put all 3 applications from backbone direct dependencies 
of the package "gnustep" while not even including 
"SystemPreferences.app" in package repository, which is a signal to 
newbie users that backbone is the real backbone of gnustep, which is 
another confusion....

I'll stop using backbone. It does look outdated. Thanks for the information.