Re: Updated Roadmap

[Gregory Casamento]

Currently Terminal is not distributed with GNUstep itself, it's in GAP.  Mail is also not in GNUstep.  The only applications which are distributed with GNUstep are:

Core applications:
* Gorm
* ProjectCenter
* DBModeller
* GWorkspace
* SystemPreferences

And a few examples:
* Ink

The first three are development apps... GWorkspace is a FileViewer and is the one desktop app that is in GNUstep.  SystemPreferences is for maintaining default settings.

Also, GAP has been around for several years. :)   We've become more active over the last couple of months.

Also... you're not forced as a packager to include anything you don't want.   :)  You can deliver the apps separately since they exist in separate places in the repository.

GC

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Markus Hitter <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 25.03.2009 um 21:37 schrieb Gregory Casamento:

I've updated the 1.0 Roadmap here:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Roadmap

I'm throwing this out for discussion [...]

Is it still a good idea to keep applications like Mail.app or Terminal.app with the development libraries/frameworks? For a few months now there's the GNUstep Application Project (GAP) and moving those apps there would make the central part of GNUstep independent from these.

The reason I'm asking is, I think a GNUstep-only GNU/Linux distro won't be accepted by a wide audience anytime soon, if it happens at all. Accordingly, GNUstep should be (and is) prepared to coexist on other distros like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSe, Windows, ... you name it. Any of these distros, for example, feature a terminal application already, so for me it's questionable to keep another one written in GNUstep with the central GNUstep libraries/frameworks. Moving non-development-oriented apps into GAP would better reflect the thinking of most of today's OS distributions, giving users a more comfortable experience.


Markus

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