Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 22 Feb 2006, at 19:58, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I boggled when I read that ... then realised that my initial incomprehension was due to 20+ years experience programming on unix style systems ... it simply didn't occur to me

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Jeremy Cowgar
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: Jeremy Cowgar said that he had problems because the base library creates/uses a user defaults database, and he didn't want it doing that... so I spent a little while making that behavior optional ... and you can pick up the new

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Richard/Andy,This gives me an idea. Instead of a split, why not simply make those DO classes non-functional given a parameter. This allow developers to use base as a library without the need for daemons, and it would avoid a messy and, possibly, unnatural, split in the base lib.Later, GJCGregory

FOSS Mediation Manual -- Lowering the Bar.

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Perez
I saw this posted on another FOSS mailing list today, and read over it. I think we could benefit from some of the things they suggest, as GNU Classpath already has. Full text follows: Dear OPL developers, I wrote some guidelines that should help FOSS projects getting more lively and

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 22 Feb 2006, at 10:20, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote: On 19.02.2006, at 17:12, Helge Hess wrote: On 19. Feb 2006, at 06:27 Uhr, Andrew Ruder wrote: Objective-C is an incredible programming language, but right now the most crippling factor for its widespread use is the lack of a standard

buildcode tool

2006-02-24 Thread Gregory John Casamento
I am considering a tool which can be used to read the .xcode files and generate GNUmakefiles OR simply execute gcc and create a build directory as xcodebuild under OS X does.Later, GJCGregory John Casamento-- Principal Consultant, Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)## Maintainer of Gorm(IB) GUI(AppKit)

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 23 Feb 2006, at 01:04, Gregory John Casamento wrote: Richard/Andy, This gives me an idea. Instead of a split, why not simply make those DO classes non-functional given a parameter. This allow developers to use base as a library without the need for daemons, and it would avoid a

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 22 Feb 2006, at 20:32, Matt Rice wrote: why not just have it instead of having to setup a config entry just not have it create the defaults database until something is written to defaults then if his program doesn't use it, it won't ever be created? I did that... in svn.

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Helge Hess
On 22. Feb 2006, at 19:29 Uhr, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I boggled when I read that ... then realised that my initial incomprehension was due to 20+ years experience programming on unix style systems ... it simply didn't occur to me that copying the library from one directory to

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 22 Feb 2006, at 20:32, Matt Rice wrote: --- Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Feb 2006, at 22:30, Riccardo wrote: Hey all, On Sunday, February 19, 2006, at 06:27 AM, Andrew Ruder wrote: Jeremy Cowgar said that he had problems because the base library

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Yen-Ju Chen
On 2/22/06, Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'm just trying to find out exactly what your problems are so we can do something to avoid them ... and it's sounding to me like we just need an alternative installation script to install stuff in the FHS locations ...

Error recompiling GNUstep-base under Windows

2006-02-24 Thread Stefan Urbanek
Hi, I have installed GNUstep under windows using the latest installer. $ cd /c/GNUstep/Development/Source/base $ ./configure --disable-xml $ make ... Linking library libgnustep-base ... Info: resolving ___objc_class_name_Protocol by linking to __impobjc_class_name_Protocol (auto-import)

Re: SystemPreferences

2006-02-24 Thread Dennis Leeuw
Hi Chris, Would this also mean the we need a /System/Library/Inspectors /System/Library/Finder /System/Library/TextConverters /System/Library/GSPrinting just no name a view others that are falling in the same category. Or am I somehow missing the point here? Thanks, Dennis Chris Vetter

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-02-24 Thread Philippe C.D. Robert
Hi Richard, On 23.02.2006, at 08:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: Whats problematic is that it isn't possible to go w/o it and run GNUstep binaries/libraries like a regular Unix tool. Thats one of the reasons why its currently not possible for OGo to switch to gstep-base. Exactly, this