all the tools are there to start developing, even if you dont care for supporting gateway its no reason you couldn't get started on making some homebrew....maybe sending it to someone else to test if you really object to getting a gateway yourself
so lets just say he delays for 6 weeks....that's a good amount of time to get started on a project in the mean time
so lets just say he delays for 6 weeks....that's a good amount of time to get started on a project in the mean time