Re: GNUSTEP on OSX 10.6.8

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

"Dr Slivnik Tomaž MA (Cantab) MMath (Cantab) PhD (Cantab) FTICA" wrote:
> It would certainly be interesting to have an industrial-strength simple 
> stripped-down developer's/scientific/engineering/technical user's distribution 
> based on some simple underlying unix-like O.S., advanced filesystem like ZFS, 
> running GnuStep on top, and have the old NeXT apps reproduced for a more 
> well-designed NeXT-like experience - with the added benefit of a 2GHz+ 
> multi-core CPU, gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of storage.
why do you think I work relentlessly on GNUstep and GAP since the past 
12 years? or perhaps it is 13 now?

Although we will never achieve the integration with the underlying OS 
like there was NeXT and although our requests to the operating system 
interface and to applications in general increased a lot, making them by 
definition more complex,

However, the closest thing we can have to get this experience back is 
GNUstep... MacOS has its roots there but as you describe, it pollutes 
its interface, delivers humongous, dumbed-down apps.

Windows-8 is going that route too.

So I can only hope to improve GNUstep on my workstation and laptops, but 
it is an extreme, disheartening task where one can only work brick after 
brick and do not discourage.

Riccardo