Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

[Gerold Rupprecht]

Hi Richard, et al.,

Pointing out hiding the instruction set for their GPUs is only one
aspect of NVidia's less than stellar behavior.

In my opinion, NVIDIA are unethical unscrupulous shysters.

Their drivers force the obsolescence of perfectly functioning hardware
as well as disabling software functionality the cards can support to
squeeze their user base. I will desist saying anything about their
after-sales support. Patents and APIs practically oblige certain users
to buy their merchandise.

If the ObjC  compiler is not broken when releasing GCC this would send a
clear message that it is a supported platform.

Shipping with critical regressions for only certain users is treating
them as if they were Cinderella.

This will certainly be noticed and hopefully attract more users.

Best wishes,

Gerold

On 3/21/21 8:18 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   >  There have been instances where GCC was released without a working ObjC
>   > compiler effectively breaking GNUstep in the eyes of the rest of the
>   > world.   Other compilers do not let this happen, but, for some reason, GCC
>   > did and still does not consider Objective-C regressions to be a blocker.
>   > Only C, and C++ issues.  GCC needs to consider Objective-C to be important
>   > enough to its ecosystem to halt a release to fix a critical regression
>   > otherwise GNUstep is not being treated equally.
>
> WHat you say is valid.  And I think I could bring about that change in
> policy, if some of you will support my push.
>
> However, missing ObjC features have also been mentioned.  How crucial
> are those to GNUstep?  Can someone identify the missing features that GNUstep
> absolutely needs?
>
>
>
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