Re: [RFC/PATCH] EOModel

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:59  pm, David Ayers wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Here's a patch to support more programatic model manipulation:

I applied that, with a fix to a typo and a few very minor updates to 
the file.

> PS: I orignially wanted to patch findPathForModelNamed: to use 
> NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains, but the current implemetation 
> seems so unusual, that I would prefer to remove it.  It seaches the 
> main bundels resource directory for the model (which the global modal 
> group would also); then it interprets the path as the location of a 
> loadable bundle and if it is, searches its resource directory; then it 
> searches for a loadable bundle named "Models" in ~/Library, 
> /LocalLibrary and /NextLibrary, and if it finds it searches its 
> resource directory.  I think this method should be removed, but maybe 
> someone can convince me otherwise.

I'm afraid I have no idea ... I never used the original EOF code, so I 
don't know what it did, but it seems reasonable to look in resources 
belonging to loaded bundles.  Is that what it's trying to do?