Re: Request for update and/or release of GDL2 and Renaissance

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Tito!

Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote:
> Good day everyone at the GNUstep community,
> I've been watching this project since 1990s and wonder why there 
> hasn't been a release of more up-to-date packages, especially the GDL2 
> and Renaissance packages which I think are very important and 
> worthwhile components of the GNUstep project, I think this project 
> would be a great alternative environment in the GNOME and KDE infested 
> world, exploring the possibility of having up-to-date components 
> working in OpenBSD. Can somebody please explain what's up? Hopefully 
> this project won't allow itself to be killed off or forgotten, it's 
> too good to be dead.
> Please produce a new, up-to-date release of most if not all packages, 
> especially the GDL2 and Renaissance.
> More power to this project, the bastion of true OpenStep compliance, 
> thank you very much.
Thanks for the kind words. It is nice to see somebody praising the 
"Bastion of true OpenStep" while most people usually seek better GNOME 
or KDE integration. You use no light works calling them "infesting" :) 
Lately the world is infested by even worse stuff than those which, at 
the end, are somehow our distant cousins. We have Unity, Windows 8, 
MacOS 10.9....

Anyway, more power? well we have the power we have in terms of users and 
developers. Perhaps few people share your same ideas or, perhaps, even 
if they do, they devote little of their actual time developing them.

Development happens usually when something is needed or used. So most 
Developers either hack in their own garden or if they feel up to 
maintainership, fix bugs and add enhancements when something is known to 
be needed and used.

This is not perhaps ideal, but that is in many projects...

The best thing is thus if you have problems to speak up and tell us 
them, so that things can be get compiling and working again and then 
released.

If you have usage, apps that use other libraries or such, do share them.

Riccardo