FW: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!)

[Mondragon , Ian]

i'm sorry, but i don't think this is exactly true.  what will gnustep gain?
how many people will *really* run gnustep apps on a windows box?  while the
gnustep community seems to have grown somewhat in the past several years,
it's still been fairly slow growth and there are a lot of people in the
linux/bsd communities that have never heard of/paid attention to
gnustep...and that doesn't hold much promise for the windows community at
large.

yes - we'd gain an edge by having the most extreme form of
cross-platform-ness around, but i feel it's misleading and unfair to even
think that we would have a sudden flock of developers and users simply
because of windows compatibility.  as long as you stick to the
Foundation/AppKit, most things will compile on Mac OS X, but the
loudly-touted cross platform apps/tools in this area are few and far between
(with GNUmail being the most notable) - and i'm just seeing it for what it
truly is: a win, but not considered by enough people as significant as it
should be.  so if we already have a more applicable form of
cross-platform-ness (linux/bsd -> OS X), without the severe bump in
momentum, why should we think that a linux/bsd -> windows application would
give us even as much?

- ian

-----Original Message-----
 
Besides, Windows won't die if we ignore it, but GNUstep will gain a LOT of
momentum if it runs on Windows.