Re: Weep fo GNUstep

[Gregory Casamento]

Matt,

Thank you for this very reasoned response.

GC

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Matt Campbell <mattcampbell@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello James:
>
> This is hardly constructive.  How, specifically, do you think GNUstep could
> be improved?
>
> Here is why I care about GNUstep, though I am a late-comer to this
> community, and not very actively involved (yet).
>
> 1.  It aims for parity with the native toolkit of a mainstream platform (OS
> X).  True, WINE does the same for Windows, but see the next point.
>
> 2.  Said API has a unified object-oriented foundation, unlike the mess we
> have on Windows.
>
> 3.  This API is more friendly to dynamic languages than wxWidgets, GTK, or
> Qt, let alone the mess of API's on Windows.  By dynamic languages, I mean
> languages like Python, Ruby, Lua, Io, Smalltalk, and even JavaScript.
>  Unlike the other toolkits I mentioned, Cocoa and GNUstep don't require you
> to write, or even generate, bindings for every object.
>
> 4.  The GNUstep Renaissance project is useful even to developers who only
> care about Cocoa, especially for developers who don't want to (or can't) use
> Interface Builder or Gorm.
>
> I know the GNUstep team is addressing the problem of aesthetics, so if this
> isn't possible already, you should eventually be able to make GNUstep apps
> look the way you want.  Especially apps that use Renaissance instead of the
> fixed layouts produced by Gorm. (Incidentally, it saddens me that GNUstep
> newcomers are still attracted to Gorm rather than Renaissance.)
>
> True, GNUstep is short on contributors.  Is this your primary concern?
>
> You say GNUstep could have been great.  It can be still.  But what, exactly,
> does this mean to you?
>
> Matt
>
>
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