Re: Extremely poor quality of GNUStep applications

[Thomas Davie]

On 20 Apr 2011, at 08:42, Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote:

> On 04/20/2011 03:35 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> When looking form an organizational perspective, I think the GNUstep project 
>> (Base,
>> Gui, Make, Back) are part of the FSF GNU software collection 
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/).
>> 
>> While applications are not under the umbrella of FSF and managed 
>> individually by
>> the respective authors.
> Confusingly, gnome is also listed there together with gnustep, but gnome 
> defined themselves quiet differently than gnustep on responsibility and 
> scope. e.g. gnome believe they deliver user experience, while gnustep believe 
> they deliver development tools. Thus the organization hierarchy and ownership 
> to FSF doesn't seem to explain the differences.

Perhaps it's worth stopping reading management blurb and just looking at what's 
produced.  GNUstep produces a nice clean API for developing applications, 
that's about it (not that it's a small 'it').  Personally, I would rather that 
all the guys here who are experienced in producing nice clean APIs carry on 
doing what they do, rather than getting side tracked by comities and general 
management type things.

If someone wants to do the general management type things, that's fine, they 
should set up a separate orthogonal project to do it – as previous replies to 
you have suggested, GAP and Ettoile may well have this within their remit 
(amongst other things).

Tom Davie