Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> I don't think 100% compatibility with OS X 10.8 is nearly as relevant as 'look, 
> runs this application on *NIX which only runs on OS X >=10.7'.  No one cares if 
> we've implemented 100% of all of the 10.8 Cocoa APIs, they care about the 
> particular subset that their application uses.  We may not implement that either, 
> but a few case studies are great.
>
> A few years ago, Bean was good because it required 10.4 and worked on GNUstep 
> and looked reasonable with the GNOME and Windows themes.  Now we need something 
> new.
And we never got Bean really to work! It was worth a screenshot, but it 
shows bugginess, incompleteness, etc etc. Start that it will not work 
out-of-the box because certain color encoding, fix that and you get to 
whole parts of UI commented out, bugs, small and big problems. So a good 
start... but nothing ever finished, not enough to say "Bean is a full 
gnustep citizen".
Thus we never got a Bean-GS release, no new screenshot no news, again 
the same vicous cycle. It's there 90% perhaps.

But for sure, such announcements are those that get blogged, get on 
websites, tweets and magazines. Much more than just something static on 
a website. It is the continuous flux of news, but then also substance 
and the delivered product.

Riccardo