Re: Interesting discussion on gcc about objc

[Yavor Doganov]

В Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:58:20 +0100, David Chisnall написа:

>> GNU ObjC
>> has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort to upgrade the
>> GNU ObjC front end to ObjC 2.0. And there are other issues:
> 
> Translation: The GNU project doesn't care about GNUstep.

Wrong.
A plea for help has been at a prominent place on the homepage
for quite some time; according to the CVS log:

,----
| revision 1.108
| date: 2006-10-21 00:06:11 +0300;  author: yavor;
| Added information about GNUstep, as discussed and approved by Adam
| Fedor, RMS and John Sullivan.
`----

Similarly, there is a "take action" item which is linked from
literally every page on gnu.org:
http://gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#gnustep

GNUstep is also one of the few projects with directed donations:
https://my.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/gnustep.html

On the technical front, Emacs.app has been merged into Emacs proper
precisely because one of the main reasons was GNUstep support.


Now, it's a separate question how much these things actually help.
But in reality, the GNU project cannot impose to the GCC developers to
work on Objective-C, just like it cannot order to you as a GNUstep
developer to work on, say, the GNUstep Guile bindings.

So the correct translation is: "Some of the GCC developers do not care
much about GNUstep".  Which is a very different thing.