Article criticizing Linux in the Economist - large need of software support time

2012-04-04 Thread Gerold Rupprecht
Hi, I found the following analysis most interesting: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux Then I got to reading about your involvement with the automated testing software called Eggplant. The key to success is to reduce the support time needed to work with any piece of so

A few more newbie questions

2012-04-04 Thread Omar Campos
Hi all, Now that I've read some of the introductory tutorials, I started to develop my first GNUStep app. Nothing too complicated, of course. In working on it, I've come up to a few doubts. Your input will be of great help. 1. Nicola Pero's tutorial on NSButton teaches how to replace a window'

Re: A few more newbie questions

2012-04-04 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, Am 04.04.2012 um 16:46 schrieb Omar Campos: > Hi all, > > Now that I've read some of the introductory tutorials, I started to develop > my first GNUStep app. Nothing too complicated, of course. In working on it, > I've come up to a few doubts. welcome! > Your input will be of great he

Re: Question about object initialization and autorelease

2012-04-04 Thread David Chisnall
On 31 Mar 2012, at 16:35, Ivan Vučica wrote: > I was burned once when using a garbage collector. ARC reminds me too much of > a garbage collector. ARC is very different from a garbage collector. For one thing, it is deterministic. Retains and releases still happen in the same order and at the

Re: Question about object initialization and autorelease

2012-04-04 Thread Omar Campos
Hi again, Sorry to ask so many questions in such a short time, but what is Etoilé? I've heard the name repeated here on the list several times now. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-

Re: Article criticizing Linux in the Economist - large need of software support time

2012-04-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, to me, the article looks like the typical rant you read on many blogs or which we have written often ourselves. Just subsitute the distribution name with your distribution and the applications with your applications. Open Source gives diversity... diversity is unmanageable. People want ne

Re: Article criticizing Linux in the Economist - large need of software support time

2012-04-04 Thread Ivan Vučica
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 16:06, Gerold Rupprecht wrote: > Hi, > > I found the following analysis most interesting: > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux > > Then I got to reading about your involvement with the automated testing > software called Eggplant. > > The key to su

Re: Article criticizing Linux in the Economist - large need of software support time

2012-04-04 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 18:42 CEST, Ivan Vučica wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 16:06, Gerold Rupprecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I found the following analysis most interesting: > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux > > > > Then I got to reading about your inv

Re: Article criticizing Linux in the Economist - large need of software support time

2012-04-04 Thread Doug Simons
On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Gerold Rupprecht wrote: > Hi, > > I found the following analysis most interesting: > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux > > Then I got to reading about your involvement with the automated testing > software called Eggplant. > > The key to s

Re: Applications on GNUstep

2012-04-04 Thread Citizen Jimserac
On Apr 3, 3:33 am, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/28/12 20:33, Citizen Jimserac wrote:> On Mar 16, 8:20 pm, Gregory > Casamento > > wrote: > >> I also forgot the following set of applications at > > >>http://gap.nongnu.org/ > > > Please note that the links to Zipper and to MPDCon are bus

Re: A few more newbie questions

2012-04-04 Thread German Arias
2012/4/4, Omar Campos : > Hi all, > > Now that I've read some of the introductory tutorials, I started to > develop my first GNUStep app. Nothing too complicated, of course. In > working on it, I've come up to a few doubts. Your input will be of great > help. > > 1. Nicola Pero's tutorial on NSB

Re: Question about object initialization and autorelease

2012-04-04 Thread Ivan Vučica
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 17:14, David Chisnall wrote: > ARC is very different from a garbage collector. For one thing, it is > deterministic. Retains and releases still happen in the same order and at > the same times, you just don't have to think about them. It isn't doing > anything magic, it'

Re: Question about object initialization and autorelease

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Bidi
Etoile is a project that tries to build a "desktop environment" on top of GNUstep, kind of like what GNOME is to GTK and KDE to Qt. The website is ( www.etoileos.com). In my opinion, there are 2 projects you want to follow closely in the GNUstep ecosystem. One is Etoile and the other is GAP (gap.