Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-16 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Minor additions/corrections here... "Additionally, it is possible to create GUIs which look exactly like those of a NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP application using Gorm. I believe what you might be seeing is a difference between" ... personal styles of some develpers and those by developers back when NeXTST

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-17 Thread Philippe C.D. Robert
On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote: I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with their OS? Should that goal not also be the same for GNUstep? The original goal of OPENSTEP was to create a crossplatform set of libraries which could be easily used. These

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-17 Thread Henrik Mikael Kristensen
On 17/12/2006, at 23:10, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote: On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote: I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with their OS? Should that goal not also be the same for GNUstep? The original goal of OPENSTEP was to create a crossplatf

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-17 Thread Gregory John Casamento
elopers Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:10:04 PM Subject: Re: Plans for change (minor correct of previous post) On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote: >> I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with >> their OS? Should that goal not also be

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-17 Thread Gregory John Casamento
evelopment environment and API as possible. GJC -- Gregory Casamento ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer - Original Message From: Henrik Mikael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: GNUstep Developers Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:07:15 PM Subject: Re: Plans for change (minor correct

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-18 Thread brian muhumuza
On 12/18/06, Henrik Mikael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17/12/2006, at 23:10, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote: > On 16.12.2006, at 23:24, Gregory John Casamento wrote: >>> I now ask these questions: What was the original goal of NeXT with >>> their OS? Should that goal not also be the s

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-18 Thread Philippe C.D. Robert
Hmmm.. On 18.12.2006, at 02:57, Gregory John Casamento wrote: And NeXT clearly failed with this strategy ;-) To go into all of the reasons why NeXT failed is beyond the scope of this email. But, suffice it to say, it wasn't this strategy that failed them, it was the idea that you could cha

Re: Plans for change.... (minor correct of previous post)

2006-12-18 Thread Gregory John Casamento
idea. Later, GJC -- Gregory Casamento ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer - Original Message From: Philippe C.D. Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: GNUstep Developers Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:01:49 PM Subject: Re: Plans for change...