Phil, phil taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If they cant bother to spend a couple of hours to knock up some sample > programs, or build a few packages for the major distros (that arent four > years out of date) what kind of message does that send to new users > about the platform and the developers of it? > > I know the message it send to me - go somewhere else.
In the Gorm release, since about 0.5.0 (most current release is 1.1) there are examples in the Documentation directory. They are covered in the Gorm manual which is also in that directory. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Examples]$ ls Controller SimpleApp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Examples]$ pwd /home/heron/Releases/gorm-1.1.0/Documentation/Examples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Examples]$ There are your simple examples. They've been there for a quite a while. Later, GJC --Gregory John Casamento ----- Original Message ---- From: phil taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: GNUstep Discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2006 11:49:25 PM Subject: [Fwd: Re: really attracting developers] Subject: Re: really attracting developers From: phil taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:48:20 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:12 +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 9/4/06, phil taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 14:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > gnustep is supposed to be a development platform not a desktop. i take > that as saying that you use native tools to configure the plaform. for > me on debian that means lots of xterm windows alongside gnumail and > gworkspace. i wonder where nextstep consistency went. > Of course I am commenting on it from a developers perspective. What use would sample program code be to an end user? Go download Freebasic (from www.freebasic.org) and install it. You get a "samples" directory with numerous programs dealing with all aspects for application creation, e.g. using GTK, OpenGL, mail, file io, etc, in addition to the documentation. For a software developer there is no substitute for hands on access to actual program code to get you up to speed on a new language. Why cant a GNUstep developer create even a simple "hello world" program and stick it in a "samples" directory. That might encourage new users to give the platform a look. I know it would work for me. Aside from the benefit of the code itself, the absence of code speaks volumes about how anxious the developers are to get new people on board. If they cant bother to spend a couple of hours to knock up some sample programs, or build a few packages for the major distros (that arent four years out of date) what kind of message does that send to new users about the platform and the developers of it? I know the message it send to me - go somewhere else. > > > > next year maybe... > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
