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In article <332CFDC6.445D@lehman.com>, Paul David Fox <pfox%spamoff@lehman.com> wrote:

> Nathan Urban wrote:

> > In article <332944A7.2C64@lehman.com>, Paul David Fox <pfox%spamoff@lehman.com> wrote:

> Good for you. I dont doubt Obj-C is powerful or useful, what I doubt
> is that it will make much market penetration until some real
> 'must-have' apps appear on the market.

And they're not going to appear if no one takes the plunge and tries it
out..  chicken-and-egg scenario.

Nevertheless, I expect some good apps to start appearing next year, as
some big Mac developers come out with Rhapsody releases.

> > The DR2 CD release is due out pretty soon, perhaps by the end of the
> > month.  Most of the Base Library is done.  Display Ghostscript works
> > but is slow.  They've got a fair bit of the GUI Library done.

> Whats DR2? Which newsgroups talk about this? I'd be interested
> to follow progress if the S/N ratio is good enough.

DR2 = Developer Release 2.  (DR1 was released last August, but it's
still rather primitive.  Ironically, its Win32 support is better than
its Unix support..  that's because they took advantage of the native
GUI widgets in Windows.)  There are no newsgroups which really talk
about GNUstep (there was supposed to be a gnu.gnustep, but I don't think
it ever got propagated).  All discussion goes on on the mailing list..
subscription info available off the GNUstep home page.  The SNR is pretty
good, though the list is pretty quiet right now.  I expect things will
pick up a lot right after the DR2 CD is released..  mostly the developers
have been keeping quiet until they have a new alpha to release.
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