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.