Status of GNUstep apps

[Rubens_Septimus ()]

Hello,

I started to learn about GNUstep concept with your help a little month ago. I can now set a correct env and build core and many apps. I learned so many things in that little month. You are all fantastic. Thanks so much. I love using GWorkspace, GNUmail in a daily use. So great !

I continue my GNUstep investigation to get something consistent like a Desktop GNUstep compliant.
Is there any status of GNUstep apps ? Some seem to be orphaned and not updated since a few years. One example : backbone apps seem to be frozen since 2004, but the GNUstep official site point to these apps. Are they outdated and how to find alternatives ?
Ink is a demo, TextEdit is related with the above remark concerning Blackbone ; TypeWriter seems to be specific with Etoile. So, what is the better choice with the Editor app within GWorkspace ?
Another example : Wahio or FTP ? Which one is enough accurate for a daily use ? Etc.
I can find Innerspace in regular debs, but because I build all from source, I need to buid it too, but the link is broken and I can't download it. I wonder how to go further now in a more efficient way. I could try svn, but not sure because I saw GWorkspace was recently broken with svn...
And finally, what about Etoile : are the other GNUstep compliant or broken with it ?

Patrick

[EDIT] The download error is obvious with wget and with Firefox... But I need to do scripts to make a whole install and then doing debs and so on for the happy few...

Résolution de savannah.nongnu.org... 199.232.41.4
Connexion vers savannah.nongnu.org|199.232.41.4|:80... connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse... 302 Found
Emplacement: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gap/InnerSpace-0.2.tar.gz [suivant]
--20:09:53--  http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gap/InnerSpace-0.2.tar.gz
           => `InnerSpace-0.2.tar.gz'
Résolution de download.savannah.gnu.org... 199.232.41.75
Connexion vers download.savannah.gnu.org|199.232.41.75|:80... connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse... 404 Not Found
20:09:53 ERREUR 404: Not Found.

And in Firefox :
Not found
The link /releases/gap/InnerSpace-0.2.tar.gz could not be found. It was probably renamed or removed by the project team.
Check the gap project for assistance.

[EDIT] I finally achieve to build it from this link :
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gap/InnerSpace-0.2.0.tar.gz
Obviously the link from the GAP page was wrong.

[TMC]

Yes some apps are no longer maintained. I check the [wiki][1] to see an application's status and download link.

[1]: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications

--Tycho Martin Clendenny