Re: Windows and GNUstep

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

La plume légère, vers Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:13:58PM -0400, heure 
d'inspiration,
Adam Fedor écrivait en ces mots:
> What can we do to make this happen? Could we buy someone a dedicated Windows 
> computer if they promised to work on the Windows port? Perhaps pay a Windows 
> programmer to help us?
> 

IMO, getting GNUstep to work correctly on Windows is something important
too. But it is probably not as important to fix now than to fix other
incompatibilities with Mac OSX. People who will use the Windows port are
likely to be interested in it because of GNUstep's compatibility with
the OSX api (otherwise they'd probably just use GNUstep for GNU/Linux).
And although we're (slowly) getting there, I think there are too many
important little things to fix beforehand. And for that matter, sticking
on one platform brings more benefits:
1) it avoids the disappointing that people could feel when trying
   something that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't;
2) it let us focus on the inner problems rather than both the inner
   problems and the cross-platform issues.

Besides, having enough stability in GNUstep will likely attract more
developers. A few of them being probably interested in doing that work
for free.

But of course, that's not *my* money we're talking about...


Wolfgang
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