Re: Cocotron vs GNUstep

[Markus Hitter]

Am 18.03.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Vincent Richomme:

> What are the philosophies between these 2 projects and why dont' you
> share your efforts ?

A good question. Somewhat prohibitive is Cocotron's BSD-type license  
vs. GNUsteps GNU-type license. Many closed source developers fear GNU  
licenses.

Cocotron pro's:

- Tight Xcode integration.

- Single script installer - complains about installation issues are  
rare.

- MS Windows is the primary target - an advantage for those wanting  
to deploy on Windows.

- Standalone applications.

- Very low get-started-barrier.

- Deals well with it's incompleteness.

GNUstep pro's:

- More careful written code - lots of comments in there.

- Doesn't try to reinvent the wheel and makes use of dependencies  
like libjpeg, cairo.

- Bigger community.

- Independent of Xcode, you can build on Linux/FreeBSD/Windows/ 
whatever as well.

- Most of Cocotron's advantages could be implemented without too much  
effort.

- More complete.


Markus

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