Re: Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Alright, let's stop arguing (which doesn't lead anywhere) and starting holes in the air, but let's instead start some heavy-weight brain-storming for ideas on how to implement the problems at hand. From the dicussions before we already know that: - GNUstep needs somewhat tighter management of it'

Re: Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew Ruder
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:33:37AM +0100, Nicola Pero wrote: > I'm sure a great flame-fest will follow, please excuse me if I'll drop out > of this thread at this point. ;-) Actually, this is exactly the problem. This is how proposing something on the GNUstep lists works: 1. Email the list. 2. G

Re: Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Alex Perez
Nicola Pero wrote: Yes, and frankly this is a perfect opportunity to state that rule by unanimous or even near-unanimous consent is simply not a viable nor sustainable. People disagree. One cannot make everyone happy, nor should they try to in all instances. Currently, I feel the GNUstep projec

Re: Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Nicola Pero
> Yes, and frankly this is a perfect opportunity to state that rule by > unanimous or even near-unanimous consent is simply not a viable nor > sustainable. People disagree. One cannot make everyone happy, nor should > they try to in all instances. Currently, I feel the GNUstep project is > try

Re: Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Alex, --- Alex Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Leeuw wrote: > > Hi Gregory, > > (( SNIP )) > > > > I agree with you that the OpenStep spec should not be leading anymore. I > > think GNUstep already has out grown the spec. It should now stand on its > > own feet, with own ideas and a

Why Unanimous Consent Doesn't Work (Was: Re: why do we need change?)

2005-10-25 Thread Alex Perez
Dennis Leeuw wrote: Hi Gregory, To get to 1.0 I think a roadmap is needed. Looking at: http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group_id=99 Maybe someone should define which one of those tasks needs to be completed before GNUstep can be 1.0. And those points should be made more visible on the website, a

[Gnustep-cvs] gnustep/Startup ChangeLog InstallGNUstep config...

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Fedor
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/gnustep Module name:gnustep Branch: Changes by: Adam Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/26 00:36:09 Modified files: Startup: ChangeLog InstallGNUstep configure configure.ac Log message: * configure.ac: Proper use of GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_R

RE: [Gnustep-cvs] GNUstep Testfarm Results

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Fedor
> -Original Message- > From: David Ayers > > Adam Fedor schrieb: > > Test results for GNUstep as of Tue Oct 25 06:38:06 EDT 2005 > > If a particular system failed compilation, the logs for > that system will > > be placed at ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/testfarm > > > > That directory se

[Gnustep-cvs] gnustep/dev-libs/SQLClient WebServer.m

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/gnustep Module name:gnustep Branch: Changes by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/25 16:38:49 Modified files: dev-libs/SQLClient: WebServer.m Log message: Send verbose alerts through alert method rather than NSLog() a

Re: The necessity of gdomap and gdnc?

2005-10-25 Thread Jeremy Bettis
IMO that's the wrong thing to do though ... it's a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater ... rather than disabling all the functionality until the problem goes away, you should be fixing the problem. While some apps may not need cut and paste, drag and drop, to provide services, to

[Gnustep-cvs] gnustep/core/base ChangeLog Source/NSPathUtilit...

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/gnustep Module name:gnustep Branch: Changes by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/25 16:15:36 Modified files: core/base : ChangeLog core/base/Source: NSPathUtilities.m Log message: Try to ensure basic di

Re: The necessity of gdomap and gdnc?

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 2005-10-25 14:31:56 +0100 Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:37 AM, Leigh Smith wrote: ... So my question is the degree to which gdomap and gdnc are indeed necessary for an application not requiring explicit use of inter- process comms and if NSMessagePortN

Re: why do we need change?

2005-10-25 Thread Adrian Robert
On Oct 25, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Dennis Leeuw wrote: To get to 1.0 I think a roadmap is needed. Looking at: http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group_id=99 Maybe someone should define which one of those tasks needs to be completed before GNUstep can be 1.0. And those points should be made more visible

Re: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains and non-existing directories

2005-10-25 Thread David Ayers
Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb: > On 2005-10-25 09:14:04 +0100 David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2.) creating the expected user directory layout, and creating it "in >> time" for such usage as 1.) which I believe implies: >> a.) We created it when sourcing GNUstep.[csh] (just kidding

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] GNUstep Testfarm Results

2005-10-25 Thread David Ayers
Adam Fedor schrieb: > Test results for GNUstep as of Tue Oct 25 06:38:06 EDT 2005 > If a particular system failed compilation, the logs for that system will > be placed at ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/testfarm > That directory seems to be empty. Could someone have a look at what's going on? > > S

[Gnustep-cvs] gnustep/core/gui ChangeLog Source/NSColorList.m

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/gnustep Module name:gnustep Branch: Changes by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/25 13:53:29 Modified files: core/gui : ChangeLog core/gui/Source: NSColorList.m Log message: Minor fixup for when user's

Re: The necessity of gdomap and gdnc?

2005-10-25 Thread Adrian Robert
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:37 AM, Leigh Smith wrote: ... So my question is the degree to which gdomap and gdnc are indeed necessary for an application not requiring explicit use of inter- process comms and if NSMessagePortNameServer would address this (since I see NSMessagePorts are explictly

Re: why do we need change?

2005-10-25 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Riccardo, --- Riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > > They want themeability and they want the freedom to endlessly customize > > thier > > desktop. This is something that people have been able to do on Windows > > for > > years. > well.. this is also a risk of making things complex.

Re: The necessity of gdomap and gdnc?

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 2005-10-25 09:37:19 +0100 Leigh Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In an application that indeed relies on distributed processes, this would be the price to pay, but after some review of the GNUstep base code, it seems the use of distributed notifications and distributed objects are tightl

RE: Proposal: Subversion Migration

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Fedor
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ruder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > automatically. For example, I can make a /modules/dev-apps that > basically says: > > Check out /apps/gorm/trunk into the gorm directory > Check out /apps/easydiff/trunk into the easydiff directory > > and so on. Wh

Re: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains and non-existing directories

2005-10-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 25/10/2005 02:57 Sheldon Gill said the following: > I think you've mis-diagnosed the behaviour problem. It isn't in > NSSearchPath() but rather the calling code. I agree that the code in NSColorList is not robust enough to handle absent ~/GNUstep/Library directory. It should probably simply ski

Re: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains and non-existing directories

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 2005-10-25 09:14:04 +0100 David Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sheldon Gill schrieb: It isn't in NSSearchPath() but rather the calling code. Creation of a path isn't and shouldn't be the responsibility of NSSearchPath(). That needs to be handled elsewhere. Generally it is, by the way.

Re: why do we need change?

2005-10-25 Thread Dennis Leeuw
Hi Gregory, To get to 1.0 I think a roadmap is needed. Looking at: http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group_id=99 Maybe someone should define which one of those tasks needs to be completed before GNUstep can be 1.0. And those points should be made more visible on the website, as to get peoples atte

[Gnustep-cvs] GNUstep Testfarm Results

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Fedor
Test results for GNUstep as of Tue Oct 25 06:38:06 EDT 2005 If a particular system failed compilation, the logs for that system will be placed at ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/testfarm If you would like to add your machine to this list, set up a cron job (make sure you set up your PATH and other envir

The necessity of gdomap and gdnc?

2005-10-25 Thread Leigh Smith
I've been trying to use GNUstep & MinGW to produce a working Win32 application. One of the goals is to have the application behave as a first class Windows application, in particular to launch it from the Start menu without requiring MSYS and openapp to be running. Our target group of users

Re: why do we need change?

2005-10-25 Thread Riccardo
Hey, They want themeability and they want the freedom to endlessly customize thier desktop. This is something that people have been able to do on Windows for years. well.. this is also a risk of making things complex. Once I was a fan of super-configurable environments (I remember being an ea

Re: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains and non-existing directories

2005-10-25 Thread David Ayers
Sheldon Gill schrieb: > > It isn't in > NSSearchPath() but rather the calling code. Creation of a path isn't and > shouldn't be the responsibility of NSSearchPath(). That needs to be > handled elsewhere. Generally it is, by the way. > Indeed there are two issues at hand. 1.) NSColorList has to