Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

[Jeremy Cowgar]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2006, at 05:27, Andrew Ruder wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Objective-C is an incredible programming language, but right now the
> > most crippling factor for its widespread use is the lack of a  
> > "standard
> > library."  Right now there are two prevalent options to utilizing  
> > Obj-C
> > in your program: GNUstep and OS X.  Obviously the biggest problem  
> > with
> > OS X is that it is not free.  GNUstep, however, brings along a whole
> > lot of other problems: crazy GNUstep/ directory structure, daemons,
> > config files, etc.. etc..  A typical developer not familiar with  
> > GNUstep
> > sees these things and runs the other direction.
>
> Is there actually real evidence of the above?  If so I think we  
> need to
> spend some time on publicity/education to let people know that the
> problems are almost entirely imaginary.  Perhaps an introduction
> telling people how things can be used with no setup at all, and
> removal of a few warnings about missing setup.

Me. I wrote an app that was a FastCGI web based app, wanted to write  
it in Obj C, have no use for ~/GNUstep, etc... It posed problems  
making it work in the forked, no env var, environment of Apache.

I have another utility that was very easy and a pleasure to develop  
in Obj C that is nothing more than a command line utility that takes  
an EDI file (X12 837), parses, the compares the claim numbers to  
those in another file, and writes the new file out. It splits large  
files into smaller ones, updating cross-ref checks, numerical checks,  
counts, etc... That has no use either for ~/GNUstep/ and it poses  
problems for me saying, Here Luke, run this on your box to split the  
file.

Jeremy