Re: What's the new direction?

[Jamie Ramone]

Don't pay it TOO much mind, it happens once ever other year or two. The direction never really changes as a result of these.

Congrats on GNUstep + Mac! I really don't understand the reluctance on behalf of the maintainers of GNUstep to help people with this specific issue, especially as it would greatly increase GNUstep's exposure by making it more accessible to Mac developers.

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello!

I have been flooded with a lot of emails from the mailing list as of recently - but due to school and the like, I haven’t been able to participate much - in fact, I deleted most emails.

But recently, I saw topics like Kickstarter, and „The thing we call GNUstep“. I was slightly confused and read up on the emails and their quotes. The kickstarter compain seemed pretty nice to me, but it was missing stuff IMO. But, thats a topic to itself.

What I however wanted to know now is, what is the direction?

In the kickstarter thread, I saw that things like App Stores were mentioned - I want to make a small note here. Me and a friend are working on an SDK that lets people develop applications using HTML or even dynamic languages like PHP. The first application, the first big one, that will be based on this, is drag0n. Its a package manager, and in rough sense, an app store-thing. Currently, it only runs on mac. But it has one more, rather important option: it runs a toolchain underneath itself. Hence, it can build packages using ninja or make, autoconf or cmake. I am working on integrating GNUstep in here - and basing the SDK itself off GNUstep too.

If this project works as expected, a new 3rd party „appstore“ would exist. I have my feet in varous scenes where that project is being awaited for since a while now. That also includes the restrictness of apple’s App Store.

But that brings up the question: How to best re-distribute GNUstep apps? I myself can do that by using a programm called dyldbundler. I can just bundle all the libraries or frameworks just as I need them.

It would be quite cool if somebody could tell me what the current direction for GNUstep is - and what possible plans have been made.

On a side note: i am nearly done with my GNUstep build for OS X. I am just checking on the header files, and seeing if I can easily redistribute them - because that is very important.

Kind regards, Ingwie.

PS. For more info on drag0n: http://ingwie.me/index.php?r=page&p=projects%2Fdrag0n

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