Re: side projects and sub projects

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Richard Frith-Macdonald ha scritto:
> Lots of people want a GNUstep desktop environment
> Some people want to produce native-feeling windows apps
> Some people want to produce native-feeling gnome or kde apps
> Some people want to be able to work with OSX tools but deploy on 
> Linux/unix/windows
> Some people want to use the latest OSX APIs
> Some people want to work on better new stuff than OSX
>
> I guess what I'm struggling to identify are the major groups of GNUstep users
> More precisely, I suppose, the groups of potential users; people who want to 
> use GNUstep but for whom it's not yet good enough.

Right, this list catures many wishes. I may add.

Some people need more Mac kits beyond foundatoin and AppKit (e.g. all 
Core* kits or the System kits)
Some people want to have a cutting-edge free desktop environment
Some people want to have a desktop for small computers (Raspberry, 
Letux... etc)
Some people want to have stuff looking nostalgic and revive NeXT as 
close as possible
Some people want to write server applications
Some people want to use non-mainstream platforms (e.g. old computers, or 
SPARC servers, or...)
Some people want to port one specific app and have it run in another 
environment (windows, GNOME....)
Some people want to develop native Objective-C but use Free OS instead 
of Mac (e.g. students or purists)

Some items in these lists are specific projects.
Some however are perhaps just different views of our core stuff.

If you say "advanced api".. if somebody is working on adding Mac 
methods, but it make spart of our main project to add them. Perhaps they 
can be staged in a fork, but then slowly merged in as stabilized.

It is important not to give a "fragmented" impression of GNUstep: we are 
capable of many things and we can support other more varied projects.

Riccardo