Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

Philip Mötteli wrote:
> You underestimate marketing. A performant marketing can even sell a 
> product, that is and will never exist. Just think about vapor-ware.

No I don't, I agree with you about the power of marketing. 
Unfortunately, as you already mentioned, the GNUstep project is not very 
talented when it comes to marketing :-( Any ideas how to change this?

> > Additionally, why would a Cocoa developer want to port a GUI app from 
> > Mac OS X to GNUstep if at the end there is no environment in which the 
> > app would be integrated?
>
> Well, I feel a huge interest here in using GNUstep as a porting means.
> The problem is, as I already mentionned right in my first posting of the 
> thread you mentionned, that GS needs to complete the Windows port as 
> much as possible. That's actually the only frequent complaint I see. And 

Interesting to hear, could you explain this huge interest a little more? 
I at least do not see any concrete interest of any Mac OS X developer to 
port real apps to GNUstep, so I wonder what you mean exactly?

Besides, porting alone is not sufficient. In fact the possibility for a 
port is just a prerequisite, there must be some potential user base on 
the "other platform" in order to justify a porting effort. Otherwise it 
just does not make sense to port, it would probably be a wasted effort. 
Unfortunately - for most Mac OS X developers - there is no or at least 
it seems that there is no such user base (marketing?). Again, what would 
be needed to change this fact (or perception)?

> I do agree with that. I just don't agree with people complaining and not 
> wanting to help with one line of code. And I don't think, that 

Somestimes it is not possible to contribute code to a project due to 
whatever reason. Still it should be OK to give feedback or post to this 
list as long as it is constructive - it's discuss-gnustep after all!

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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