| The real daunting task is not the missing stuff (I can supplement or remove to accommodate), for me it has always getting the builds up-to-date, but then giving up from an error and stuff that I actually do not understand. I wish there was a main GNUstep distribution (say built on FreeBSD) with an installer and an updater, under which everything must always work first (so developers have a stable environment).
I have an IDE/App development program that I am one day going to release, it is proprietary, and it has its own programming language, but it was always intended for both GNUstep and OS X, but I doubt I will ever release it for GNUstep until something more stable appears. I did at one point have it mostly running on GNUstep, and it was pretty cool seeing that happen. I had to dumb-down the code-editor because of lack of some scripting additions that I used, but that was okay. I also was able to identify some bugs and I reported them.
If such a tool could be produced, I think it would be a tremendous asset for GNUstep. I suspect there are plenty of developers of applications for OS X who would be interested in porting to GNUstep but are put off by the daunting task involved in making the effort, especially knowing that there are almost certainly some things missing but not knowing how extensive those gaps might be.
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