None of those strings should require any gorm rebuilds.

GC


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote:

> While chasing after a bug that Riccardo reported (The fix was intended
> as a birthday present, but now I am too late), I noticed that many of
> the strings used in the GUI file externs.m are different from their
> Cocoa counterparts. This in itself is no big deal as we normally refer
> to them via their names, which are the same. But when exchanging a NIB
> file between these two systems the actual values get used.
> The wrong values come mostly from a time when no GNUstep developer had
> access to a Next or later Apple machine to test the actual value of
> constants.
>
> To prevent future problem I went through most of the file and wrote some
> simple code to report the actual values on Cocoa. I did this for about
> 140 strings from this file and found plenty of differences, which I
> corrected. The big problem now is that when you switch to the new GUI
> code you will not only need to recompile all your GNUstep applications
> and tools, in addition you may also need to regenerate all Gorm files
> that include any of these strings. I am not sure whether there are any
> at all, but potentially there could be some.
>
> As usual with bulk changes like this, I might have overlooked a few
> cases and/or make mistakes in the changed I did. Please feel free to
> check and improve them.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
> Fred
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