Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 11/22/13 19:11, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> MyStep is interesting but an implementation of uikit is needed in some 
> form to attract that segment of developers.
do we really want to attract them? for what purpose? Where would this 
"uikit-gnustep" run? do you want to have it running on Android do port 
iOS stuff? or on some free hardware? which one? Of what use would it be? 
Questions that need to be answered besides just using the buzzword of 
compatibility once against GNUstep.

Having a "uikit" would be comparable to having cocoa. But what is the 
ultimate use for it?

GNUstep allows to develop like you do on a Mac or NeXT box, but on your 
operating system of choice and on hardware of choice (most notably, x86 
commodity hardware).

But for a mobile computing it looks dimmer. You might either target 
Andorid or some kind of total-free implementation, that would be 
essentially a different way of doing myStep, bi looking at iOS instead 
of desktop as compatibility. But from the long work of Nikolaus on free 
phones and tablets, we know how spotty and different the scenarios are 
there.

Mobile stuff is, sadly, much more retrograde in terms of freedom than 
desktops.

Riccardo