Greg, all your answers: well said!
cheers,
Lars
Am 23.11.2013 um 20:12 schrieb Gregory Casamento:
>
> On Nov 23, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/22/13 19:11, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>>> MyStep is interesting but an implementation of uikit is needed in some form
>>> to attract that segment of developers.
>>>
>> do we really want to attract them?
>
> Yes
>
>> for what purpose?
>
> To help make the project better.
>
>> Where would this "uikit-gnustep" run?
>
> On any platform it is capable of being ported to, just like GNUstep.
>
>> do you want to have it running on Android do port iOS stuff?
>
> Yes and to develop new things, just as GNUstep can be used to develop new
> apps for Linux/BSD.
>
>> or on some free hardware?
>
> Sure.
>
>> which one?
>
> Is this somehow my choice and not the community? Is a choice necessary here?
>
>> Of what use would it be?
>
> As you stated and I stated earlier: To compile and run existing iOS apps on
> any other platform and to develop new apps using that framework.
>
>> Questions that need to be answered besides just using the buzzword of
>> compatibility once against GNUstep.
>>
>> Having a "uikit" would be comparable to having cocoa. But what is the
>> ultimate use for it?
>
> You’ve asked this question several times in the course of this message, I
> suggest you check above.
>
>> GNUstep allows to develop like you do on a Mac or NeXT box, but on your
>> operating system of choice and on hardware of choice (most notably, x86
>> commodity hardware).
>>
>> But for a mobile computing it looks dimmer. You might either target Andorid
>> or some kind of total-free implementation, that would be essentially a
>> different way of doing myStep, bi looking at iOS instead of desktop as
>> compatibility. But from the long work of Nikolaus on free phones and
>> tablets, we know how spotty and different the scenarios are there.
>
> Android is a good start. It might be good to develop a version that runs on
> the desktop to allow for it to be perfected first and then move on to porting
> it to different hardware as needed.
>
>>
>> Mobile stuff is, sadly, much more retrograde in terms of freedom than
>> desktops.
>
> That’s precisely why a free version of the iOS frameworks are needed to help
> to free all of the apps which are proprietary on it so that they can run on
> other platforms. Development of such a framework is not the end, but just
> the beginning of making these platforms free.
>
>>
>> Riccardo
>
> Greg
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