Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt
Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt
- Subject: Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt
- From: Alex Perez <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:48:55 -0800 (PST)
Florent, your mailbox is disabled, probably because it's full.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Florent Pillet wrote:
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I'd go farther than that. A Windows port itself is not enough. What is
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needed is a way to somehow shrink-wrap an application with the GNUStep
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frameworks so that, in the end, the user just has to run an installer
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and doesn't need to know that GS is the running support for the app.
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I don't know how this can be done (or has been planned for) from an
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architectural point of view.
Yes, it is possible and is done right now, without even needing an
installer (app can go on CD), and if you'd actually read my previous
e-mails thoroughly, you'd have seen me saying so.
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OTOH, if Apple would somehow revive the Yellow box I'd be happy too.
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I'd even be happy to pay for it, as long as it allows me to seamlessly
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port my apps...
You can wish for this, but it will not change the fact that Apple will
*NEVER* revive YellowBox because they have far too much of an interest in
seeing their expensive hardware sold. Once again, corporate self-interest
(which is understandable) affecting business decisions is something that
GNUstep is immune from.
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Florent
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On 4 fivr. 04, at 10:49, Philip Mvtteli wrote:
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> Well, I feel a huge interest here in using GNUstep as a porting means.
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> The problem is, as I already mentionned right in my first posting of
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> the thread you mentionned, that GS needs to complete the Windows port
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> as much as possible. That's actually the only frequent complaint I
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> see. And I do agree with that. I just don't agree with people
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> complaining and not wanting to help with one line of code. And I don't
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> think, that rewriting, debugging and maintaining a whole interface
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> layer themselves, will cost their clients less, than completing
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> gnustep-gui.
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