Re: [Fwd: web page update]

[Alex Perez]

Adrian Robert wrote:

> However, I feel http://gnustep.org/information/wm.html is a bit 
> overblown.  Do we really need more than the first two paragraphs?  (BTW, 
I don't.
> the link to WindowMaker.org needs to be fixed.)  This sounds like John 
> Kerry trying to define himself as "not-Bush".  ;)  (Apologies to 
> non-U.S. readers.)  All that is needed is a simple statement of the 
It's a good equivocation, and I will say this...we've stated it in these 
terms for the same reason Kerry is...stupid people who say "Kerry is the 
same as Bush"....well, we've got people thinking essentially the same 
thing re: GNUstep and WindowMaker...so it's extremely important to 
clarify the differences in *no uncertain terms*

> relationship between the two projects, perhaps with some history that 
> would make things clearer, and then spend the rest of the effort on 
> presenting what GNUstep is (a matured framework of libraries and other 
> facilities supporting efficient application development; in its Cocoa 
> incarnation it underlies most applications and facilities you see on OS 
> X, but in its GNUstep guise it plays a lower-profile role, supporting 
> individual applications on linux and other systems, together with some 
> limited desktop environment facilities).

For the record, I definately think the "about GNUstep" page needs a 
"Relationship to Cocoa" subsection on it which covers the similarities 
of GNUstep and Cocoa as of the current point in time. Adam, what do you 
think?

> As far as related projects go, there are other projects besides 
> WindowMaker for which confusion could arise -- AfterStep, various 
> NeXT-like widget sets, libFoundation and the various Cocoa-related 
> sourceforge projects that periodically come up on the mailing list, the 
> PDA project by a former GNUstep member, probably more..  Would it make 
> sense to handle these on a common "related projects" page?

In practice, this is not a real world problem.