Re: GNUstep ROADMAP

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Nov 2005, at 06:05, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> Here is the Roadmap:
>
> http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Roadmap
>
> If you are a maintainer, please make any changes for your section  
> that you deem
> appropriate.

Rather than changing anything, I'd like to query some things because  
things on that page differ from my impressions of what's been  
discussed on the mailing list, so I guess I'm missing out on stuff.

GNUstep 1.0

1. it says current base/make/back ... but what about ms-windows  
support ... I'm guessing we want base/make/back fixes/improvements  
for windows as it's not nearly such a good state as unix-style  
systems.  I'm not sure this is a 1.1 issue rather than 1.0
This also ignores the fact that window manager interaction (focus in  
particular) is undoubtedly the biggest problem with current apps, and  
is a backend issue at least as much as a gui issue.

2. gui seems wildly ambitious (complete coding on all existing  
classes) .
I'm not sure what 'improve printing support' entails
The 'fix major bugs' is obviously required, but we should decide on  
what those bugs are
I haven't heard anyone suggesting removal of classes before, and I  
don't approve of the idea ... rather we should have *big* warnings  
about works in progress so that people don't try to use them unless  
they are also willing to work on improving them. (ie clear  
information in the docs and warnings generated at runtime).

GNUstep  1.1

Integrate camaelon into gui ... I think this should be in 1.0 as a  
matter of practicality ... as far as I can see, this is an easily  
achievable target, so why not do it soon.

Integration of WildMenus ... I haven't looked at this, so i don't  
know, but seems reasonable.

Breakup of gui and base into component libraries ... I've never heard  
of this and haven't seen anything saying why it would be at all  
desirable, let alone worth making into a target.

Make GNUstep more compliant with the FHS as an option ... this ought  
to be quite easy ... so why not make it part of 1.0 if it's actually  
a good 'selling' point?

Better Windows support ... yes ... but we need to get windows users  
to define what they need improving

Nib support in gui and Gorm ... you know best on this ... very good  
if you can do it in time for a 1.1 release