From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 15:06:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2528916A40F; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurkan@linuks.mine.nu) Received: from wiggis.ethz.ch (wiggis.ethz.ch [129.132.86.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B0243D46; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:06:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gurkan@linuks.mine.nu) Received: from wiggis1.ethz.ch (wiggis1.ethz.ch [192.168.127.2]) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CDE4446; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:06:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [195.176.50.50] (bludger.ethz.ch [195.176.50.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261D64432; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:06:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:06:03 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCrkan_Seng=FCn?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at phys.ethz.ch Cc: dinoex@freebsd.org, archite@midnightbsd.org, caelian@gmail.com Subject: GNUstep Software in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:06:06 -0000 Hello I've seen that there is http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ to integrate GNOME as complete desktop environment. I would like to create a team of interested people for the same purpose but with GNUstep (which is a very nicely designed API of base and gui tools, started in 1988 by NeXT as NeXTSTEP and later improved and sold as OPENSTEP product). There exist many software projects using GNUstep to be portable onto UNIX systems (and also work on Windows and Mac OS X (the incarnation of OPENSTEP)). There's already about 30-40 ports of GNUstep ports, and the number will increase at least by 20-30 more. A meta package needs be created too. Is there a chance the FreeBSD project can provide an official subpage for this, namely http://www.freebsd.org/gnustep/ ? My longer term plan, clearly is also to provide a http://livecd.gnustep.org based on Freesbie. Personally a new directory for the ports would make sense, since GNUstep can by design use different backends than X11 too. And it already does so: Windows and Mac OS X (completely without X11): http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~sengun/GNUstep.Win.Gorm.gif http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail.data/screenshots/v1.2.0pre1/gnumail-osx.png Cheers, Guerkan