gstep-make 2.0 Re: gstep-base Re: [OGo-Developer] OGo InvoiceApplication

[Helge Hess]

On 02.01.2008, at 17:13, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>>> BTW: I think the GNUstep guys pretty much agree with me on  
>>> this :-) In
>> fact *we* could probably contribute a stable GNUstep release branch.
> You mean a second gnustep-base stable?

No, a *first* gnustep-base stable. As far as I know there has never  
been an ABI stable GNUstep release branch.

> there exists already a gnustep-base
> stable version? right now it is 1.14.2 I think, the unstable stuff  
> is at
> 1.15.2.

Those are ABI unstable versions, comparable to SOPE 4.7.x OGo 1.1.x.

>> And then instead, keeping the existing ogo stuff compiling against  
>> the
> (dead) libFoundation?

Its not '(dead)', its perfectly working code.

> Then this will make the existing objective-c ogo die
> sooner than later I think. At least, when ogo will be compatible to
> gnustep-base, it might attract one or another people to develop, as  
> I have
> seen happen to sogo. But as long as ogo depends on libFoundation,  
> this will
> very unlikely happen.

I don't believe in that, but anyways. Nothing against moving to  
gnustep-base.

As far as I'm concerned the ObjC codebase will not die. Just like  
libFoundation it will go into maintenance mode for years to come. Its  
working and quite stable, why drop it?
[BTW: my current OGo project uses both, the Java *and* Objective-C  
parts]

Thanks,
   Helge