Re: Advertisement for gnustep

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On 11.09.2006, at 21:44, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > Well, maybe was the phrasing slightly suboptimal, but not the  
> > message behind it ... ;-) Besides, we don't have a desktop (yet)  
> > and never will because some project members don't want GNUstep to  
> > become a desktop in the first place. This is legitimate, but I am  
> > convinced this has negative impacts on the "progress" of the  
> > entire project.
>
> I happen to think that's completely wrong ... as I don't know of  
> anyone who doesn't want GNUstep to become a desktop (in the sense  
> of being opposed to it), and even if some people were opposed to it  
> that doesn't mean they would be able to prevent it ... as there are  
> certainly no such people among the core developers.
> My strong feeling is that most developers ideally want GNUstep to  
> be an entire system!

You are correct, sorry if I was not precise. It's not about nobody  
wants GNUstep to become a desktop, it is about priorities. Should  
GNUstep be promoted/pushed as a (Unix) desktop environment or should  
it be a pure (cross-platform) framework which can then be used to  
write a desktop or whatever. Whenever this discussion came up many  
valuable contributors expressed their sympathy for the latter option.  
Now again, this is legitimate, but it has - obviously - strong  
influences on the project itself.

-Phil
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