Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with
> > their OS? Should that goal not also be the same for GNUstep?
>
> The original goal of OPENSTEP was to create a crossplatform set of
> libraries which could be easily used.  These platforms consisted of
>  Windows (OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.2/Windows), Solaris (OPENSTEP 1.1/ 
> Solaris), &
> Mach (OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach) were the implementations of this created by
> Sun and NeXT while NeXT was still in business.   There were  
> proposals to
> have an OPENSTEP implemented under HP-UX on the PA-RISC architecture,
> but that didn't happen prior to the buyout by Apple.   On each one  
> of these
> platforms, mainly windows, OPENSTEP was made to look/act like the  
> operating
> system it was on.   As you can see, GNUstep's purpose is  
> *precisely* the same
> as OPENSTEP's.

And NeXT clearly failed with this strategy ;-)

I guess the difficulty here is that there are some who understand  
GNUstep as something like OPENSTEP Mach 4.x, an entire OS or at least  
desktop environment running on a Unix/Linux OS, whereas there are  
others who understand GNUstep as an implementation of the OpenStep  
API specification (with some - but not all - Cocoa additions/changes)  
which integrates seamlessly into its host system. In this case a  
Windows port is what probably matters most (business wise). Right now  
GNUstep is a mix of both which makes nobody completely happy.

-Phil
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