Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 87, Issue 24

[J. Jordan]

Nicolas,

I recoginze that this disscussion comes up every few years/months and 
it usually alienates a lot of developers and users.  Perhaps it would 
be less confusing if gnustep.org didn't have an applications section 
and if there was not a gnustep applications mailiing list since there 
are not supposed to be any applications.  But that kind of brings me 
back to the question of what are you supposed to do with a development 
environment that is not supposed to develop any applicaions?

I see your point about QT and there are QT apps out there but KDE very 
quickly took up the title of Desktop Enviroment based on QT. GAP is 
just a few applications at the moment, they are doing good things but 
I don't get the impression they are building a desktop.  Backbone has 
been dead for many years.  There are many good applications out there 
built on the GNUstep libraries, it is confusing  if you say I should 
not call those GNUstep applications.  So I guess what we need is a 
name for everything GNUstep is not, LastStep, OtherStep, I don't know, 
should be something catchy and still pay tribute to NeXTstep roots.

Sorry I bothered you, I was just trying to drum up some interest in 
GNUstep (or whatever I am supposed to call it), guess that is not what 
you want.  I'll stick to the apps-gnustep mailing list in the future 
but of course there aren't supposed to be any apps so I'm sure you can 
ban me from there if you wish.

-j