Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Sheldon Gill
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 06:06:11 + Sheldon Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've a range of "problems" regarding GNUstep in respect to the file system, some of which are wishes for better behaviour but some are certainly what I

Next release

2005-03-16 Thread Stefan Urbanek
Hi, What are the plans for the next GNUstep -bas and -gui releases? Is it possible to make minor releases more often and to publish plans/todos for next major and minor releases? Moreover, can people who make releases describe the whole process on the new wiki so others delegated developers can

Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

2005-03-16 Thread Banlu Kemiyatorn
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:57:45 -0500, Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For another, I'm not sure when the y advancement should be used. I > guess even the Japanese are mostly writing horizontally now, at > least on computers? ;-) I have seen a *lot* of japanese text in the field of publ

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 08:13:42 + Sheldon Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I disagree that Unicode to the file system isn't part of OpenStep. Mostly, the OSAPI uses NSStrings passed to NSFileManager or NSFileHandle. It is Unicode clean as far as possible. Hmm

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On reflection, it sounds like we agree about everything apart from whether to store system-specific or standardised paths internally (we may disagree about what the API implies in this regard too ... but I think the principle is the main issue). We both

Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

2005-03-16 Thread Banlu Kemiyatorn
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:33:08 -0500, Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I can't find any reference to this on the web. Is everyone > rendering this font character-by-character manually? Leaving the > question of what's happening in Gnome/Gtk aside, if I render in GNUstep > using a

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread David Ayers
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: While my feeling is that the two approaches are fairly evenly balanced (leaving aside distributed systems, and the fact that we have one system already working in the libraries, and consideration for the existing application codebase), I'd like to hear what other peop

Re: Next release

2005-03-16 Thread Quentin Mathé
Le 16 mars 05, à 11:03, Stefan Urbanek a écrit : Hi, What are the plans for the next GNUstep -bas and -gui releases? Is it possible to make minor releases more often and to publish plans/todos for next major and minor releases? Hi Stefan, It's a welcome addition to wiki. You can move tasks which a

Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

2005-03-16 Thread Adrian Robert
On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:57:45 -0500, Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For another, I'm not sure when the y advancement should be used. I guess even the Japanese are mostly writing horizontally now, at least on computers? ;-) I have seen

Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

2005-03-16 Thread Adrian Robert
On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:12:02 -0700, Adam Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 15, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Adrian Robert wrote: Ah. Attached is a patch implementing these functions in back-art. ;-) It modifies the existing DPSshow implementation

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 13:11:18 + David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: While my feeling is that the two approaches are fairly evenly balanced (leaving aside distributed systems, and the fact that we have one system already wo

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread David Ayers
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 13:11:18 + David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: While my feeling is that the two approaches are fairly evenly balanced (leaving aside distributed systems, and the fact tha

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 15:28:25 + David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first paragraph was talking about the implicit conversion that OPENSTEP for NT does. It would allow things like: [@"test" writeToFile: @"C:\\Temp/test.txt" atomically: YES];

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread David Ayers
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 15:28:25 + David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first paragraph was talking about the implicit conversion that OPENSTEP for NT does. It would allow things like: [@"test" writeToFile: @"C:\\Tem

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Alex Perez
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 06:06:11 + Sheldon Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've a range of "problems" regarding GNUstep in respect to the file system, some of which are wishes for better behaviour but some are certainly what I

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Jeremy Bettis
- Original Message - From: "Richard Frith-Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Installation on windows (fwd) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 15:28:25 + David Ayers <[

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 19:38:44 + Jeremy Bettis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, -lastPathComponent would return 'test.txt' for the first string and 'Temp\test.txt' for the second string as these are assumed to be posix paths. Perhaps OPENSTEP did the sa

Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

2005-03-16 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adrian Robert wrote: On 2005-03-15 12:38:44 -0500 Adam Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Adrian Robert wrote: Is there any more efficient way to render with regular spacing than repeated calls to moveto and show? Try DPSxyshow and variants. Ah. Attached is a patch im

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Sheldon Gill
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-16 08:13:42 + Sheldon Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I disagree that Unicode to the file system isn't part of OpenStep. Mostly, the OSAPI uses NSStrings passed to NSFileManager or NSFileHandle. It is Unico

Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

2005-03-16 Thread Sheldon Gill
On reflection, it sounds like we agree about everything apart from whether to store system-specific or standardised paths internally (we may disagree about what the API implies in this regard too ... but I think the principle is the main issue). Pretty much. The principle, though, has implications

Re: Next release

2005-03-16 Thread Adam Fedor
On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:03 AM, Stefan Urbanek wrote: Hi, What are the plans for the next GNUstep -bas and -gui releases? Is it possible to make minor releases more often and to publish plans/todos for next major and minor releases? Moreover, can people who make releases describe the whole process o