Re: Is GNUStep still beign updated?

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 15.05.2015 um 08:57 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com>:

> On 15 May 2015, at 02:49, ochi n <ochi12@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I'm quite new to objective-c. It just looks interesting as an object 
>> oriented superset of c, but it looks like I can't even create a class 
>> without a framework like GNUStep(that is, without the NSObject root class). 
>> Also the latest release of gnustep-base was like two years ago. I just 
>> wanted to know whether gnustep is still being updated or not. Because it 
>> seems like an excellent framework and the only free(libre) alternative to 
>> apple's proprietary cocoa(and without cocoa, objective c is almost useless, 
>> as there's no root class and implementing one can be pretty difficult).
>> 
>> It may be a stupid question, but the mailing list and the wiki seem mostly 
>> inactive so I'm not sure about it.
> 
> I think the wiki *is* pretty inactive … for instance, the last release of 
> gnustep-base was more like six months ago,

maybe there is a record missing for 1.24.7 in 
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/showdetail.php?app=176

> and coincidentaly, the next one is later today (so svn trunk currently 
> contains the 1.24.8 version if you are too impatient to wait a few hours for 
> the package to be available for download).

BR,
Nikolaus