Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:06:03 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCrkan_Seng=FCn?= <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: dinoex@freebsd.org, archite@midnightbsd.org, caelian@gmail.com Subject: GNUstep Software in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4512AA5B.4080409@linuks.mine.nu>
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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
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