Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Dec 2007 20:18 UTC
"The GNUstep Windows installer is based on the MinGW system and consists of the basic MSYS and MinGW libraries, other library dependancies and the GNUstep Core packages (gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and gnustep-back). The installer installs GNUstep onto most varieties of Windows (see below for tested installations) and sets up the computer to make it easy to run GNUstep applications. It is based on the NSIS installer."
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2006-01-08
Honestly, who's going to use it on Windows of all platforms? GNUStep doesn't have killer apps to entice Windows users, and apps appear even more alien in Windows than any Gtk+ app ever did. Even on its native Linux environment as a developer toolkit it's far overshadowed in mindshare by Gtk+/Gnome and Qt/KDE. As a cross platform compatibility layer for OS X Cocoa apps it lags too far behind the Apple libraries and does not seem to be catching up.
The project really seems to be headed for a dead end (or a vanishing niche) to me, regardless of coolness or technical merits. This may sound like flamebait, but I think it's just a realistic assessment of the market. (Yes, even FOSS projects have markets. Even if they don't get money, they still need active users and developers to stay alive.)