Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Chris Hanson]

GNUstep is interesting to commercial Mac OS X developers as a way to 
deploy their applications on other platforms.

GNUstep will be particularly interesting to commercial Mac OS X 
developers if it gains real commercial-quality Windows support.

However, GNUstep will cease to be interesting if it doesn't provide a 
"normal" Windows user experience on Windows, because then you won't be 
able to actually build or sell commercial software with it.  Windows 
users are much more tolerant of bad interfaces than Macintosh users, 
but they still like software that seems at least somewhat integrated 
with their environment.

I think an SWT-like approach using native Windows controls wherever 
possible would be the best idea, and probably be the most future-proof 
as well.

Participants in the GNUstep project doesn't have to consider any of the 
above if they don't want to; people are donating their time and should 
work on what's interesting to them.  But they should also be aware of 
market realities: Mac OS X developers will not flock to GNUstep to port 
their products to Windows if users won't be comfortable with the end 
result.

  -- Chris

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