Re: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-09 Thread Gregory Weston
I appreciate very much the time taken by those who responded here and via e-mail. It's done a lot to reassure me and - more importantly - gives me some good information for people who might look askance at it when I pitch the solution. Thanks for helping the newb. Greg -- "Harry?" Ron's voic

Re: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-09 Thread Gregory Weston
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07.10.2008, at 19:22, Gregory Weston wrote: > > What I'm really looking for is opinions, anecdotes, etc on how stable > > and robust the GNUstep version of Foundation is. I know I'm up to it > > because I've already done i

RE: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message d'origine De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008.10.07 19:22 À: Objet: Suitability for production code? This is an overly blunt question, but my timeframes right now are shorter than I'd like. I've used NeXTstep a bit and Cocoa extensively but I'm new to GNUstep

Re: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-08 Thread Nicola Pero
On 7 Oct 2008, at 18:22, Gregory Weston wrote: This is an overly blunt question, but my timeframes right now are shorter than I'd like. I've used NeXTstep a bit and Cocoa extensively but I'm new to GNUstep. A client to whom I cannot sell a Mac, but who has embraced Linux, has approached me to w

Re: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-08 Thread Saso Kiselkov
As long as we're talking about Foundation, I can say with confidence that it is 100% bullet proof. I'm using it for all sorts of things at my own company (an ISP), some examples being: - a distributed SQL-backed web-based network monitoring and management system capable of monitoring the availabil

Re: Suitability for production code?

2008-10-08 Thread Helge Hess
On 07.10.2008, at 19:22, Gregory Weston wrote: What I'm really looking for is opinions, anecdotes, etc on how stable and robust the GNUstep version of Foundation is. I know I'm up to it because I've already done it, but GNUstep's my unknown. Can I trust this as the base for a mid-volume server

Suitability for production code?

2008-10-08 Thread Gregory Weston
This is an overly blunt question, but my timeframes right now are shorter than I'd like. I've used NeXTstep a bit and Cocoa extensively but I'm new to GNUstep. A client to whom I cannot sell a Mac, but who has embraced Linux, has approached me to write the replacement for an old Windows app - w