Re: question about low availability of Mac OS X applications that has GnuStep edition

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <mailman.0.1295849022.17297.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:

As someone who does mostly Mac/iOS development, but keeps his feet wet 
with GNUstep, I see the main factors being:

> 3. No proven commercial viability

It's just a non-starter to suggest supporting a platform when you can't 
show you'll get significant sales.  The only way you *might* be able to 
accomplish it is if you essentially make dedicated, turn-key systems 
that have little need to run on Apple hardware.

> 4. Missing API
> 5. Platforms do differ

Even if you convince people to look into supporting it as a contingency 
plan, "it's just a re-compilation" is in *no* way a given.

Just about any ObjC developer will be happy to give it a shot . . . 
provided you pay enough money for their development efforts!  Simply 
offering to by a copy of $20 software (or even $200 software) if it were 
available for any specific GNUstep platform isn't going to get you 
anywhere.

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