On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 13:23 CET, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 Jan 2014, at 12:16, Niels Grewe <niels.gr...@halbordnung.de> wrote: > > > (Sorry, forgot to CC the list) > > > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > >> Von: Niels Grewe <niels.gr...@halbordnung.de> > >> Betreff: Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign > >> proposal > >> Datum: 7. Januar 2014 13:00:12 MEZ > >> An: David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> > >> >> >> Am 07.01.2014 um 12:06 schrieb David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org>: > >> >>> On 7 Jan 2014, at 10:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald > >> >>> <richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>>>> I read 'Objective-C 2' as 'we support the features Apple introduced > >>> >>>>> in 2005! Yay!' > >>>> >>>> You may be unusual in that. > >>> >>> Possibly, but the 2006 WWDC was the first and last time Apple > >>> >>> referred to a set of new Objective-C features as Objective-C 2. The > >>> >>> term Objective-C 2 does not appear in current Apple docs, > >> >> <nitpicking> > >> That’s not quite true: Some of the documents still talk about something > >> called "Objective-C 2.0“, most notably the runtime programming guide: > >> >> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCRuntimeGuide/Articles/ocrtVersionsPlatforms.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008048-CH106-SW1 > >> </nitpicking> > >> >> But that doesn’t make the term any more intelligible. I think we should > >> >> prefer to use a concise description of the feature set over any > >> >> marketing mumbo jumbo. > I sympathise/agree with that ... but we have, on the website , a consice > description of what gnustep is, and yet just had Doc O'Leary complaning > because we didn't have a marketing mission statement. > > Probably we need both ... a good description and a marketing phrase to refer > to it.
How about just calling it as simple as: "GNUstep Runtime" That GNUstep runs on Objective-C, should be clear from the general description about what GNUstep is anyways. Then a page dedicated to the runtime, could go into the gory details of all the nice features it provides. cheers, Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
