Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Doc O'Leary wrote: > For your reference, records indicate that > Dan Hitt wrote: > >> Absolutely --- an entire OS which you just install on some partition >> of a gpt disk >> would be perfect, imvho. >> >> I would certainly download and use it. > > For what? I ma

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread Doug Simons
On Feb 17, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote: > Steer GNUstep towards supporting existing ObjC developers that think they > can benefit from running their software in a non-Apple ecosystem. Purge > the project of the “what can you do for me?” attitude and welcome people > with an inviting “w

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread Doc O'Leary
For your reference, records indicate that Dan Hitt wrote: > Absolutely --- an entire OS which you just install on some partition > of a gpt disk > would be perfect, imvho. > > I would certainly download and use it. For what? I mainly use a Mac, but I have a number of images for virtual machin

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread David Chisnall
On 17 Feb 2016, at 23:07, Doc O'Leary wrote: > >> Speaking of a vision. What I personally would like to see is a complete OS >> distro built from the bottom up with GNUstep in mind. > > Wrong kind of vision. I’ve always been talking about a vision for how > *actual* people would find GNUstep u

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread David Chisnall
On 17 Feb 2016, at 19:53, Gregory Casamento wrote: > > Why not wayland? Because it’s a distraction. Wayland can run X11 apps fine. You gain nothing from Wayland that you wouldn’t have from just dropping support for early '90s X11 implementations. > Network transparency is not something wh

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread James Carthew
on the topic of a gnustep distro has anyone looked at packaging gnustep for Reactos? On 18 February 2016 at 16:19, Dan Hitt wrote: > Absolutely --- an entire OS which you just install on some partition > of a gpt disk > would be perfect, imvho. > > I would certainly download and use it. > >