On 15 Jan 2009, at 10:34, Quentin Mathé wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Le 11 janv. 09 à 13:03, David Chisnall a écrit :
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> At the moment, I believe that there are some parts of  
>> EtoileFoundation
>> that depend on parts of AppKit.  Is this sensible?
>
> Hm no. Although it's quite possible I did that as a temporary solution
> for a reason I have forgotten. I'll take a look at that.

The example that came to my mind was the XHTML-IM parser, which  
requires AppKit's NSAttributedString Additions.

>> Recent versions of
>> GNUstep let you link -gui against tools without getting any errors.
>> Does anyone want to be able to use EtoileFoundation without AppKit
>> being present?
>
> Yes, CoreObject for example :-)

Is there a good reason for not linking CoreObject against -gui?

>> If so, we should create a new framework for Étoilé
>> extensions to AppKit (not EtoileUI, since it contains a lot of
>> additional functionality).  If not, then I have a few other things I
>> want to move in to EF.
>
> It's fine to put AppKit extensions into EtoileUI if they don't overlap
> with EUI features. EUI already includes various small AppKit
> extensions (mostly categories).

I'd rather not use EUI for this kind of thing (e.g. XHTML parsers /  
generators).  It's quite a big framework that provides a fairly  
specific big new feature, and I think it will confuse developers to  
have simple AppKit extensions in there.

I'd much rather we either had an EtoileAppKit (or something)  
framework, or we put them in EtoileFoundation.

David
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