Re: really attracting developers

[joekewoud_]

Well, I will never know,
Although I put like 100 hours in trying to compile gnustep on my  
intel mac, i didn't get even close of getting there.
(I even tried installing plain darwin, but that could not fix the  
problems.)
So it was like impossible to get it running, so the first step of  
porting an osx app to gnustep was already to hard.
Then I thought of installing gnustep on my windows box instead.
Installation was a dream, due to the great package provided for  
windows.  But after that, gnustep did not even compile most of the  
apps that were
available on the gnustep site itself. And also the developer-tools  
were not apparent how to use, and did
even crash, or had unexpected behavior.  The gnustep site did not  
mention it was developed for main usage on linux.
So, after finding out, I installed linux, and used binary packages.  
Now most things did work. BUT I DON'T WANT TO USE LINUX!
I want to use this great nextstep framework and the beauty of  
objective-c to work on *windows*
Because I want my apps to be *available* like that is why I hate the  
mac cocoa framework, and gnustep would be it! And that is why I don't  
want to
develop for linux!
On windows, the gnustep framework needs to be installed first. And it  
does not look like any other windows app, so users don't
understand the slightest bit what to do. *unlike* when using osx!  
This is not acceptable. Because I cannot expect them to figure it  
out, they aren't programmers.
So I didn't even get to that great ide/libraries to test them in the  
first place...
Now I figured out that objective-c and windows libraries don't even  
compile together, there is very little I can do with
my OSX code on a pc...
I really would like to develop for gnustep. But:
- it has to run on windows smoothly and beautifully, with the app  
having a windows like gui. (Come on guys, windows is the most used  
platform! This would bring nextstep to the masses!)
(- same maybe for linux/unix, with the app having a more common unix  
like experience (kde?) (Don't want to leave ppl out, right))
- Also remarks should be added to the website about best practices,  
so that not too many hours should be spend on setting up  
configurations that do not give the expected results.
- Developer-tools should look and behave more "finished"
- There should be converter tools to assist making osx source run on  
gnustep
So this is why this developer is still kept from gnustep (unwillingly)

Ewoud

On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Rogelio Serrano wrote:

> Whats keeping other developers from gnustep?
>
> incomplete ide?
> incomplete nextstep based system?
> incomplete libraries?
>
> i don't buy the general applications unavailability argument. we are
> talking about people who want to create apps under gnustep.
>
> i don't buy the appearance argument either.
>
> --
> things i hate about my linux pc:
>
> 1. it takes more than a second to boot up
> 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
> 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
> 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
> 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself
>
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