Aug6Meeting

Notes from GNUstep meeting Aug 6 2021

• Website (David Wetzel - DW)

   * Need to have the website present a solution for installing GNUstep quickly.  Make a script…
   * tutorials to get from to hello world quickly
   * (Riccardo M. - RM) Discuss with Riccardo what changes are needed.

• Usability (DW)

   * More command line interfaces
   * Terminal based environment
       * Terminal only based tutorial

• GCC vs. LLVM/Clang (DW)

   * Clang has an advantage because ObjC is more of a focus
   * Fred: Is it possible to get  gcc up to spec? 
       * Require time from GS developers?  
           * Who should do it?
           * Will GCC accept our patches?
           * RMS asked, and GCC said they would review our patches with “kinder” eye.
   * Issues with libobjc2 - (RM) - This is a consistent issue on a lot of platforms.  LLVM/Clang Doesn’t work on ALL platforms.
       * Doesn’t work NetBSD
       * uses CMAKE, but would be better using STRAIGHT make as CMAKE is not available or not easy to configure

• Cairo - Problems (Fred Kiefer - FK)

   * unmaintained — should we move to another library??
   * Can we replace the current Cairo with a hw accelerated library? Or any other commonly used library that is maintained!?

• Cocotron (FK)

   * Can we use any Cocotron code?
   * MIT based.  So we may be able to reuse some of their code or take ideas from their code.