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Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt
From: |
Philippe C . D . Robert |
Subject: |
Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:04:25 +0100 |
On Feb 4, 2004, at 1:30 AM, Philip Mötteli wrote:
Most that I know who use Windows do it either because they have no
knowledge of the alternatives, no money for something "better" or
circumstances are just forcing them to use Windows.
:-) So, what did I say? Do they work with Windows or not?
But the context was GNUstep and Cocoa: People do not use GNUstep,
because they have a predefined opinion. An opinion which is not based
on facts. Such biased opinions are the subject of marketing. Who's
making the marketing for GNUstep?
It's the old discussion again, you forget or ignore one important issue
here, which is that since GNUstep is no "desktop environment" you
cannot just "see it work" like you can do with KDE or Mac OS X and so
on. There is no easy way of installing GNUstep and a whole bunch of
GNUstep apps so that they just work, interact, shine ..., so how can
one know if it works or not, how can you make convincing marketing, as
you say?
Additionally, why would a Cocoa developer want to port a GUI app from
Mac OS X to GNUstep if at the end there is no environment in which the
app would be integrated? To me this is a complete show stopper. IMHO
the really exceptional part of OpenStep (and thus GNUstep as well as
Cocoa) is the AppKit, and as long as the GNUstep implementation (incl.
its integration with X) is not on a similar level as Apple's
implementation, there is probably only a small percentage of developers
who are interested in GNUstep as a cross platform solution.
cheers,
-Phil
--
Philippe C.D. Robert
http://www.nice.ch/~phip/
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, (continued)
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philip Mötteli, 2004/02/03
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- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philip Mötteli, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Florent Pillet, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philip Mötteli, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Florent Pillet, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Gregory John Casamento, 2004/02/07
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philippe C.D. Robert, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philip Mötteli, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Allan Odgaard, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Alex Perez, 2004/02/04
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, Philippe C.D. Robert, 2004/02/04