Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Philip Mötteli]

Am 03.02.2004 um 23:36 schrieb Tregaskis, Wade:
> Most of the GnuStep developers seem to be Linux/Windows users,

What makes you think that?


> who aren't familiar with Cocoa.

I'm with NeXTstep since version 1.1. And I still do all my development 
with Cocoa.


> It's quite a painful transition from Cocoa to GnuStep.

Especially for porting WOF/EOF 4.x applications. The next time I have 
such an application – and I don't want to see any Java – I will ask you 
to make it run for me on MOSX. Ok? How long will it take you to 
implement WebObjects and EOF?   :-)
The only moment you're right, is concerning AppKit/gnustep-gui.


> Few Mac developers are going to be interested in working on a crappier 
> version of something we already have.

Apart from AppKit: Please give me some examples! Or are you just 
talking out of the blue?

And for your application, you are definetely not interested to multiply 
your market/revenue by 10? Well at least, many such Mac developers 
would be. That's the reason, why they are so interested in GNUstep. But 
unfortunately only few of them want to give something. They only want 
to take.

And btw, none of both is crap for me. Sorry. It's just a pitty, what 
commercial pressure can make out of product (CoreFoundation, EOF, WOF, 
OpenStep for Windows, ...). A commercial pressure, that GNUstep doesn't 
have.


Re
Phil