Re: ANN: GTAMSAnalyzer 0.1

[Alex Perez]

Quentin Mathé wrote:

> Le 13 juin 04, à 00:54, Matthew Weinstein a écrit :
>
> > I'm delighted to announce the first release of the gnustep port of  
> > TAMSAnalyzer. TAMSAnalyzer is a qualitative research tool for coding  
> > and analyzing textual material (Qualitative research is research  
> > mostly conducted in sociology, anthropology, media studies, etc.).  
> > While still missing many of the features of TAMS Analyzer, it 
> > provides  a base for adding the vast majority of features of its OS X 
> > sibling.
> >
> > Download the goods at  http://educ.kent.edu/~mweinste/tams/gtams/ 
> > GTAMSAnalyzer.all.0.10.tar.gz
> >
> > Matthew
>
> Well on my system (GNUstep on Mac OS X with X11), the compilation  
> fails, I get the following output :
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> And it would be cool also that your application can be just named TAMS  
> Analyser and not GTAMSAnalyser, no need to add 'G' just because you  
> have ported it on another platform, it's still the same application  
> whatever the platform is (use a different versions scheme/number if the  
> features/development states are different across the platforms). This  
> "G" or "GS" prefix habit is a bit ridiculous. Other applications like  
> Illustrator which works across platforms like Win, Mac etc. have a  
> unique name without tweaks like WIllustrator or WinIllustrator just  
> because it's Illustrator for Windows.

Yes, I quite agree with Quentin here...It's generally considered bad 
style to prefix GNUstep applications with a G. This also causes 
potential problems with the GNOME fanboys, who love to do this as well. 
I say good riddance to the G, since it doesn't do anything to actually 
tell you what the application does. On another side note, as an 
undergraduate anthropology student hoping to "go all the way 
(doctorate)" hopefully I'll have occasion to use your application in the 
future :)