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.

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