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Re: State of the 'Step
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Gregory Casamento |
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Re: State of the 'Step |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:33 -0500 |
Ronald,
You're preaching to the choir here on this one. Any ideas how to make
that happen? I would love to get up to date packages everywhere.
Thanks, GC
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony <rcfa@cubiculum.com> wrote:
> Even more to the point: unless there are simple GnuStep meta-packages for the
> major BSD and Linux distributions that are reasonable "click-install-run"
> easy, most of the effort going into GNUStep is wasted, because except for a
> few nostalgic exNeXT users and a few developers, nobody is going to use it.
> I didn't have time to play with GNUStep for ages, but I keep following the
> development from a distance, but think about it for a moment: if KDE or
> something like it would require that level of involvement just to get going,
> do you think it would have the sort of adoption it has now?
>
> Ronald
>
> On 14 Feb 2010, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
>> Great to hear how much GNUstep software you are using. But being a
>> developer I am most interested in what didn't work :-(
>> Why did you have to abandon your attempt to compile GNUstep from SVN?
>> (We switched over from CVS years ago, if you really tried CVS then this
>> was a very old version of GNUstep)
>>
>> And are there any interesting patches on the debian patch system for
>> GNUstep that didn't make it upstream?
>
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Re: State of the 'Step, J. Jordan, 2010/02/16