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Gregory Casamento
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 06:13 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > Last time I built nextgo it built fine from the sources that are on
> > GitHub.   The code for nextgo hasn’t changed in a very long time.
>
> they also build from savannah. I have seen you did some change on NeXTGo
> on GitHub only, but they appear to be windows related.
>

Yes they are windows related. I believe next go was shutting down
immediately.  I made minor changes to allow it to come up.


> >
> > 1. While Riccardo has suggested removing the version on github there
> > are still changes in it thet don’t exist in the subversion
> > repository.  I will merge these into svn and archive the one on github.
>
> I have merged what of interested to the apps I maintain since a long
> time, other changes I left out. Didn't notice the changes in InnerSpace.
> You worked yourself there on a mirror repository, up to you.
>

I think we should merge everything back to Savannah.  I will take a look
tonight to see what I can see.

> 2. A slightly larger concern is that gap remains on Savannah in the
> > first place.  Over 94% of all open source, Free Software, and
> > commercial projects use git.  I think it’s time we thought about
> > migration of this project to github or to another place in the future.
>
> The discussion gets broad. As for now, Savannah is still the place of
> choice for GNU Free Software.


It’s the choice RMS would like us to make but I don’t think it’s a strict
requirement and I would argue that statistically speaking most free
software resides in GitHub or other platforms.

Even in the hypothetical migration to GitHub - which I would advocate
> against -


This is not a shock.

I wonder if GAP should land in gnustep/gap and not maintain
> its separate status. It would give the impression to be part of GNUstep,
> as with other repositories that were merged inside GNUstep.
> Or we could just decide to dissolve GAP and merge it - or parts of it -
> into GNUstep. It would be a big change and ind case suggest also part or
> reorganization of GNUstep libraries and Apps itself.
>

Unfortunately this can’t really happen. All of the apps
In the GitHub repository are assigned to the FSF.  Gap contains work that
isn’t assigned or has a license different from the gpl. So it would need to
have a separate identity.

Riccardo
>
Yours, GC

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