[rescue] Never thought I'd ask this

[nate at portents.com]

> Better question:  people dumped the NeXT-themed AfterStep wm for this?

GNUstep looks like it's pretty usable these days actually, at least based
on my impression from their web site:

http://www.gnustep.org/

I'm planning on taking it for a spin soon on FreeBSD to see if it lives up
to my impression.

> Imagine if all that time and pain had been dumped into the GNUStep
> project.  We'd be cross-compiling with Xcode by now.

GNUMail does cross-compile for both GNUstep and OS X:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail/

Not sure if any other GNUstep apps do, though.

- Nate