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Re: GNUstep dev guide
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Riccardo Mottola |
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Re: GNUstep dev guide |
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Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:15:27 +0100 |
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Hi,
Graham Lee wrote:
I found a lot of people on places like reddit, askubuntu and
stackoverflow are discovering that GNUstep is the thing to use for
Objective-C on Linux and other platforms, but hitting a wall after
installing it. What do I do now? I've tried following Apple's docs but
there's nothing like Xcode here? I want to use ObjC, so why is this
page in Swift?
I've launched http://www.gnustep-developer.guide/ to try and close
that gap. Currently there's one guide there (an introduction to PC and
Gorm), but I plan to write a collection of tutorials that show how to
use GNUstep to write applications.
Well, to be honest we have some pieces of "information" that go beyond
the mere documentation.
If you go here: http://www.gnustep.org/developers/documentation.html we
have a series of mini-tutorials, with example code and also screenshots,
like this:
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/PierresDevTutorial/index.html (updated
by myself from an older version that was floating around and that google
still picks up).
Now I was in the process of writing a new tutorial myself (did not end
it yet) and wanted to share it and had the thought of documentation, we
have several options
1) official website: cumbersome, only the webmasters have access to it
and it has the "official" status, so maybe only very selected tutorials
and only things regarding official frameworks. I wanted to document
using stuff from GAP, so perhaps gnustep.org is not the best place
2) WIKI: it would have the advantage that more people could collaborate
it, it is easier to write. However you have the WIKI format, while plain
HTML is easy to package separately
3) third place, like yours
It would be best to concentrate efforts, so I pick up discussion even if
my tutorial is not there yet.
I wonder thus by using your site about
- is it wise to use TEX to write this and show it as webpages? Maybe
HTML with some CSS could make things more appealing, including a blend
with the official site
- related with the above, is perhaps the organization of the site. I see
you snap pages and images in a root, imagine having many tutorials!
- use of GFDL? I know it is the preferred format for GNU projects, but
for many people it is considered to have too have issues and CDDL is
preferred. If we make something more official, we should discuss this.
Just some starting points.
Riccardo