Re: Release schedule

[Tim Harrison]

On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 08:21 Canada/Eastern, Nicola Pero wrote:

> Being compatible with Cocoa or with OPENSTEP is probably not the 
> central
> issue at the moment; I'm not sure why Cocoa compatibility is blaimed 
> for
> instability, while other stuff, such as the new text system and other
> ongoing works (which have nothing to do with Cocoa), are much more 
> likely
> causes of instability.  In most cases, we can be compatible with both

Cocoa isn't being blamed specifically for instability.  The concern is, 
if people spend more time chasing Cocoa around in circles, no one will 
take the time to fix the current instabilities in GNUstep, and they 
will just get buried deeper in the source, as more Cocoa compatibility 
is layered on top.  Then, when those bugs/issues/problems are 
discovered, they become a major issue, Cocoa compatibility 
notwithstanding.

Also, I think the new text system has greatly improved the stability of 
-gui.


Tim Harrison
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