Re: gnustep status and new ports (zaurus?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Ruder [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: gnustep status and new ports (zaurus?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:33:03PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > I recently saw your website.  I can't tell from reading it, because it
> > looks like someone has deleted all references to years in the dates;
> > is the development still going on?
> 
> Yes. Development continues.  Webmasters: anyway we could get years on at
> least the front page?  There's so many OSS projects that are no longer
> maintained, it would be best if we remove all doubt as to us possibly
> being one of those projects.
> 
> - Andy

Aw, so that's who you are!  May I call you Andy?  You are required to swear at me in the name of "chuckr", with that trailing "r" as in "er".  Goes for the rest of this list, you are all officially friends.  I have some serious health problems, which means I swing very good some days, poor others, but I am retired due to  that, and not do to my mind going (I'm not that nuts yet!)

The only reason I pushed about the dates was because it struck me that this is hurting your public image a little bit ... on the other hand, I tend to be rather stubborn, and it's possible I am overreacting (I would hope I am, really, but I don't think so).

I truly love the idea of the objc language, but even though I think that the work that Apple hhas put into the tool shows smarts, I wish it was not any of it private.  I recognize their perfect right to do it, I just was extremely pleased when I found out about the gnu Foundation libs.  I want this public, not Apple only.

My only bitch is, I understand that there's a objc++, and seeing as I feel that objc's nicest feature is its minimalism in adding OO features, bringing in all of C++ strickes me as a great move backwards.