Re: GNUstep System Overview

[Robert E. Hartley]

Wow,

You guys have done very, very nice work on this!

I have been  wanting to do an article for Linux Journal on GNU Step for
while now, but I think you have a great start here. It might be better if
there were writers who are members of the source crew to do the article.

Originally, I was thinking of writing something that demonstrates:
- moving source from NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP to test GNU Step (perhaps from the
Emerald CD sources)
- developing applications with a working snapshot of Gorm
- how a developer could use GNU Step as a the multiplatform solution to
Mac OS/X

Finally, my pet project: getting GNU Step applications built for a PDA
like the iPAQ.

People look at me strangely when I mention this, since the alternatives
include the BlackDown JDK, PocketLinux, Sun's KVM, Gtk, Qt, FLTK, and
Motif.  Why would someone want to go with a rare API to do the frameworks
and GUI?

My reasons would include:
- it is elegantly implemented and it uses Objective C
- it has a solid foundation
- the development environment is very nice
- it has the Java like capabilities of distributed objects and
introspection with the performance of C language code.
- Apple is using it, so unless in a couple of weeks there is some
announcement of an Apple PDA development environment, there is a
completely unclaimed niche that would be great for GnuStep.

Anyways, congratulations on this.

If you are interested in doing an article on this, please let me know.  I
would like to avoid bumping heads with you on this.  If not, I would love
to go ahead with it myself.

The one advantage I can see to having an outsider like myself write the
article is that I can toot the GnuStep horn louder without having to be
as modestly bashful as would be expected of the orginators.

Robert


Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Gregory Casamento and I am proud to bring you a pre-release of the
> GNUstep System Overview.
> You made a great choice by using GNUstep as your default development
> environment.... ;) Oops, marketing mode....
>
> This is the first public version, please comment and let us know what
> you think, what might be better and if you wish: contribute. This will
> probably be a work in progress for some time.
>
> The document can be found at:
> http://www.made-it.com/GNUstep/SystemOverview/site/index.html
>
> Greetings,
>
> Dennis Leeuw

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