On 11.09.2006, at 21:44, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
Well, maybe was the phrasing slightly suboptimal, but not the
message behind it ... ;-) Besides, we don't have a desktop (yet)
and never will because some project members don't want GNUstep to
become a desktop in the first place. This is legitimate, but I am
convinced this has negative impacts on the "progress" of the
entire project.
I happen to think that's completely wrong ... as I don't know of
anyone who doesn't want GNUstep to become a desktop (in the sense
of being opposed to it), and even if some people were opposed to it
that doesn't mean they would be able to prevent it ... as there are
certainly no such people among the core developers.
My strong feeling is that most developers ideally want GNUstep to
be an entire system!
You are correct, sorry if I was not precise. It's not about nobody
wants GNUstep to become a desktop, it is about priorities. Should
GNUstep be promoted/pushed as a (Unix) desktop environment or should
it be a pure (cross-platform) framework which can then be used to
write a desktop or whatever. Whenever this discussion came up many
valuable contributors expressed their sympathy for the latter option.
Now again, this is legitimate, but it has - obviously - strong
influences on the project itself.
-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
http://www.nice.ch/~phip
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