Re: Cocotron

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

Gregory,

On 24.12.2006, at 03:00, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
<snip>
> the goal I stated above.   GNUstep is an crossplatform development  
> environment and API only.   It is not a desktop, nor is it going to  
> be an OS clone.

I'd say clean up www.gnustep.org then, as it (still) says: "GNUstep  
is ... ...a desktop". You can read that in the main introduction:

http://www.gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html

;-)

Anyway, please would you explain why you think that programmers  
should/will use GNUstep as their primary API for GUI applications if  
there is no "native" environment for GNUstep apps? Do you really  
believe GNUstep GUI apps will - one day (...) - be perfectly  
integrated into Windows, X11 and maybe OS X so that the users by then  
won't able to tell the difference between a GNUstep GUI app and an  
application written using the native technologies of their platform/ 
desktop environment?

I hope you have a good plan here, because not even NeXT succeeded in  
this respect, nor Trolltech (with Qt) or other similar projects. But  
if GNUstep won't provide this level of integration, why should  
anybody use gnustep-gui then? I'm really curious how you see this as  
new chief maintainer of GNUstep and also Gorm.

cheers,

-Phil