> In Foundation, NSNumberFormatter still needs work (Fred just recently > started on it), and perhaps we should add the NSMessagePort > implementation on Windows that Richard has talked about to the 1.0 > list? I don't know if someone is willing to work on it, but I feel a > fully functional Make/Base (not GUI/Back) on Windows should be > prerequisite to 1.0 release.
Thanks - I personally think that make/base are ready for 1.0, in fact they are already well over release 1.0 ... eg, make is at 1.11.1 (and btw, OT, I'd suggest when we complete the configure changes and all the other stuff in the roadmap we bump that to gnustep-make version 2 to mark a clear jump). :-) IMO the gui is not ready because it only works with Window Maker. :-( If someone was willing to test the GUI with different window managers and make sure GNUstep applications are usable and behave well with different window managers (which is not necessarily trivial), the gui would be certainly ready for 1.0. :-) In other words, the only thing that is really missing is someone taking Gorm and making sure it works and is usable on all the platforms -- first and foremost the widespread GNU/Unix desktops ... KDE and GNOME (and probably third target is Windows, but I agree we shouldn't be holding 1.0 because of that). Last time I looked at it, anyone downloading GNUstep apps on his/her KDE/GNOME desktop would immediately go crazy with focus issues and get the impression that nothing works and that GNUstep apps are totally unusable and give up. But once that is fixed, I don't see anything stopping us from putting our flag in the ground and declaring that we do have a 1.0 release! :-) The 1.0 GNUstep Release would be a great marketing event so one of the most important things is being ready, marketing-wise, to take advantage of it. And, obviously, we ought to celebrate ... it took 10 years to get here ... to a 1.0 release ...! :-) (and test, test and test a lot). Thanks _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev