Re: ANNOUNCE: Request For Proposals

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:34:10 -0500
"Mondragon, Ian" <ian.mondragon@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> some good ideas, some serious flame bait <grin>.  while debian
> may be "the GNU distribution", i can't say that focusing on
> tying GNUstep into a particular linux distro is something
> that i would support myself. especially since i haven't run
> _any_ linux distribution in a looooong time (freebsd has been
> my OS of choice for years).  i think transparency accross
> OS's would be better for the cause than some whispered,
> distro-centric, elitist attitude.

Thank goodness, I'm not the only one - that's exactly what I
thought.

Without any intention of starting a flame-war, but tying
GNUstep to Linux too closely will certainly not help, as it
will scare people on different platforms away. I already talked
to some people which initially were interested but turned their
focus elsewhere, because they found it too hard to install
GNUstep on Solaris and HP/UX (ok, ok, I know). Well, I do
run it on Slowlaris and HP/UX (bless you) and it's not as
straight-forward as it is for, say, FreeBSD and, of course,
Linux...

About transparancy, I already feel very uncomfortable that
GNUstep relies on libraries, like libxml2, which originally
were written for GNOME.
But maybe I'm just another zealot - I prefer a clean system,
nothing GTK/GNOME or KDE on MY machines...

-- 
Chris