Re: Which ObjC2.0 features are missing in the latest GCC?

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 25.11.2019 um 12:29 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com>:

Nikolaus,

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:06 AM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:

Because not everybody will follow your focus. GNUstep is not a for-profit organization.

I'm well aware of this.  I've been with the project since 1999.  Lead maintainer since 2008 and maintainer of Gorm since 2002.

It's a thankless job, believe me.  No one can know until they have held it.  I simultaneously take the blame for all of the decisions made on the project whether they are mine or not and I am unable to effect unilateral change.

I believe that and do not at all doubt, since I have been in several project leaders roles myself in the past... It is like tending fleas. And it is

often minimizing contradiction, because it turns out to be rare that all decisions are accepted by everybody (although that is always my goal).

Therefore I try to find creative-and solutions which means that in an either-or decision situation I try to find a way to include both of the

initially exclusive options. This may turn out to be very difficult.

Since I have to admit that I never did: let me express my thanks here for taking this role!

And congrats for 20 year's anniversary of participation.

I think I came in first contact with GNUstep in Sept 2002 (at least this is the first mail of this list I can find) and GNUstep has moved forward significantly during that time.

My job is to act for the greater good of the project and that is what I am attempting to do here.

Sure and I do not doubt that. I just have a slightly different opinion what the right moment to deprecate some fundamental component

(compiler) where everything is based on. And before breaking down the basement I'd try to repair it.