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Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt
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Florent Pillet |
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Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt |
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Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:16:17 +0100 |
I think you have given both the question and the answer. Many Mac
developers would jump on GNUStep if it could help them port to Windows.
That makes sense: a porting effort to a platform you don't use is
interesting only if you're going to benefit from it -- that is, port a
commercial or shareware product.
Mind you, the interest in porting to Linux is certainly very limited. I
won't open a debate about market share, respective platform qualities,
etc. but if you're making a commercial product for Mac OS X, your
primary porting target is Windows.
So it's somewhat a "chicken and egg" problem. There definitely exists a
large number of *potential* GNUStep adopters, but the prerequisite is
that porting to Windows is possible and viable. Once porting is
possible, you'll probably see a large number of apps compiling with
GNUStep, and this will also increase the number of apps that become
available for other targets (ie GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, etc)
Florent
On 4 févr. 04, at 12:51, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
Interesting to hear, could you explain this huge interest a little
more? I at least do not see any concrete interest of any Mac OS X
developer to port real apps to GNUstep, so I wonder what you mean
exactly?
Besides, porting alone is not sufficient. In fact the possibility for
a port is just a prerequisite, there must be some potential user base
on the "other platform" in order to justify a porting effort.
Otherwise it just does not make sense to port, it would probably be a
wasted effort. Unfortunately - for most Mac OS X developers - there is
no or at least it seems that there is no such user base (marketing?).
Again, what would be needed to change this fact (or perception)?
--
Florent Pillet, Code Segment florent.pillet@wanadoo.fr
Developer tools and end-user products for Palm OS & Mac OS X
ICQ: 117292463 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/fpillet
- Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt, (continued)
- 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
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