[Gambas-user] Need Gambas3 Made Apps.

Jussi Lahtinen jussi.lahtinen at ...626...
Wed Feb 6 21:35:31 CET 2013


> Hmm. I want to add some point for consideration: What do you want to do
> exactly again?
>
> I mean: you talk about "end users" as your target group but who would use
> GambOS/Orca? End users supposedly don't want the software they're
> accustomed
> to being replaced by unknown software from a small community (which
> indicates that it is most probably not widely tested).
>
> At least I wouldn't change my preferred, customised editor (etc.) for some
> other one (after all there's a reason why it is my _preferred_ editor).
>
> It would take lots of time to replace, e.g. Firefox with its features by a
> "WaterGambas" surrogate browser or suchlike - without any use in it because
> the software was already there and the user doesn't really care about the
> name or programming language it was written in.
>
> Now, if it's a distribution for (beginning) Gambas programmers
> specifically,
> I would rather call it a _research project_ among the Gambas user community
> and then you should try to replace as much as you can by software written
> in
> Gambas whose sources can be as easily downloaded as their binaries
> installed. This seems to be your actual goal to me.
> (At least that's the kind of project I would see a sense in.)
>
> And: Don't be so pathetic. You don't need to be a guru to install Gambas
> ;-P
>

Though, it would be great to have everything made with Gambas.
I think then programs would be corrected/repaired faster and be more easily
customizable... etc.

Jussi



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