GNUstep has been relatively stagnant over the last several months and it has become a cause for concern for me.
I've been doing a lot of thinking and have compiled a list of things I believe that GNUstep needs to address to stay on top of things. The list follows: 1) More apps. Many of the following points will help with this, but this is very important. 2) Better theme support. Integration of Camaelon into the core gui library if possible 3) Better win32 support. Many companies are really eager to port their legacy NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP or Cocoa apps to GNUstep under Windows. The prospect of Linux and BSD support appeals to them as well, but not as much as Windows. I currently have two companies with whom I am talking about this. 4) Better distro support. We really need to get GNUstep into as many distributions as possile, this will ramp up exposure of GNUstep to more people and help us get more developers and users. We as a project need to be more adaptive and less resistant to change. More than anything right now we need to consider the audience we are playing to. GNUstep needs to be better able to integrate with other environments. Additionally, I've noticed recently a trend for certain people to constantly query the list asking for permission to make this or that change. It seems that what we need more than anything right now is more action and less talk. If you are interested in doing something, please do it! :) Please think about what I've said and let me know your thoughts. I say the above out of concern for the community. GNUstep is and always has been a true labor of love for me. I want to see it thrive. Sincerely, Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.) ## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
