GNUstep [was: Re: please archive me]

[Paul Seelig <pseelig mail uni-mainz de>]

archive@labs.redhat.com writes:

> no one on this list?
> 
Well, i've got this list subscribed since it's beginnings and i have
definitely lost any hope about any cooperation between KDE and GNOME.
Apart from such fundamental things like a common drag'n'drop mechanism
i think the differences between both projects have proven to be just
too large to be vanquished.

Personally i've lost quite some interest in mostly both projects
unless they still don't find any way of cooperation.  If they don't,
both will have been in vain at least to some degree. Too bad.

Hopefully the GNUstep project doesn't loose the impetus it has gained
in the last weeks/months.  I advise everybody who got weary of the
KDE/GNOME antics to rather invest their valuable time in GNUstep.
Here is a list of resources:

"http://www.gnustep.org/"  - Severely outdated and needs someone to
                             keep it up to date with the actual status
                             quo of the current project.

"news:gnu.gnustep.discuss" - This is the main public discussion forum
                             for the GNUstep developers and future
                             users.  The core developers have started
                             to regularily post progress reports and
                             finallythe first screen shots have become
                             available. GNUstep will be great! :-)

"discuss-gnustep@gnu.org"  - The main mailing list of the project. It
                             is gated into usenet and is therefore
                             meant to be up to in sync with the
                             newsgroup mentioned above.  But my own
                             experience shows that the gating's
                             reliability is rather questionable.  
                             For subscription send an e-mail to
                             "discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org"
                             containing the word "subcribe" in the
                             message body.

"http://www3.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/" - Since GNUstep is an
                             implementation of OPENSTEP (which itself
                             is based on the great NeXTStep
                             application and development framework
                             including it's ergonomic GUI concepts),
                             the screenshots and discussions of the
                             NeXT user interface shown at this URL
                             apply as well to the upcoming GNUstep
                             desktop environment.

"ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnustep/snap/" - Contains the latest official
                             monthly snapshot of the current devel
                             tree.  They are automatically generated
                             and don't warrant any functionality.
                             This is not meant for end users but for
                             developers.

"ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/gnustep/dailysnap/" - Anybody
                             interested in participating in the
                             GNUstep project can download the daily
                             snapshots from the recently available CVS
                             server as mirrored here and use them as a
                             basis for starting their own CVS mirror.

"http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/rhapsody/ObjectiveC/" - GNUstep
                             is implemented using the Objective C
                             language, for which you'll find a nice
                             beginner's tutorial under this URL.
                             Objective C bindings to toolkits like
                             gtk+ have recently begun to emerge.

"ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/objc-gtkkit/" - Objective C bindings to gtk+.

I'll keep subscribed to this list in the hope to see some more signs
of life here.  
                                 Thanks, P. *8^)
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