Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[Gregory Casamento]

On the subject of Bean...

One of the things Bean did do was to show us how slow our text handling is.   Bean runs beautifully on machines which came out with 10.4, but was dog-slow on machines of the same era.  Now it doesn't matter since we have these 8-core 32GB monstrosities (like the machine I currently have) but there are a lot of things, but it's obvious that there are still things to be tightened up in that area.

Greg

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:

I don't think 100% compatibility with OS X 10.8 is nearly as relevant as 'look, runs this application on *NIX which only runs on OS X >=10.7'.  No one cares if we've implemented 100% of all of the 10.8 Cocoa APIs, they care about the particular subset that their application uses.  We may not implement that either, but a few case studies are great.

A few years ago, Bean was good because it required 10.4 and worked on GNUstep and looked reasonable with the GNOME and Windows themes.  Now we need something new.

And we never got Bean really to work! It was worth a screenshot, but it shows bugginess, incompleteness, etc etc. Start that it will not work out-of-the box because certain color encoding, fix that and you get to whole parts of UI commented out, bugs, small and big problems. So a good start... but nothing ever finished, not enough to say "Bean is a full gnustep citizen".
Thus we never got a Bean-GS release, no new screenshot no news, again the same vicous cycle. It's there 90% perhaps.

But for sure, such announcements are those that get blogged, get on websites, tweets and magazines. Much more than just something static on a website. It is the continuous flux of news, but then also substance and the delivered product.

Riccardo

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