Re: question about low availability of Mac OS X applications that has GnuStep edition

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote:
> Hi. I have one question as a stupid user: why there is no commercial Mac
> OS X application that was ever offered also offer GNU Step binary?
>
>    
because there are? TestPlant and Cenon come to my mind.

Generally, if you code with some care, porting is very easy, I have 
several aps which are cross-platform. However "GNUstep" is not a defined 
target.

Most people will think of using GNUstep as a means to port a Mac app to 
Windows since that is the real target and a stable target (where also 
the concept of "binary" has a complete sense).

Linux, *BSD, Solaris... a big mess, don't you think? A maze...
GNUstep has its shortcomings, but I think that generally Linux is not 
such a well-defined and interesting target for many applications. Sadly 
perhaps, but it is reality.

Riccardo