[Gambas-user] Need Gambas3 Made Apps.

[Tobias Boege]

> > 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.)
> 
> I was talking about GambOS and GambOS is aimed at beginning developers
> with Gambas IDE pre installed and some manuals to learn Gambas.
> 
> The applications mentioned above are mainly meant to show the beginning
> developers what can be done with Gambas. Show its functionality, that
> you can browse the web with a Gambas application and such..
> 
> Orca project aims and end users, but I have no idea about what the plans
> there are exactly software wise, I can only talk for the GambOS part.
> 

Ah well, good to know the difference. Hans will probably dig into our
project archives next week to look for some tools for you.

Regards,
Tobi