Re: [RFC] Header organization of -base & -gui

[David Ayers]

Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 01.07.03 um 21:36 Uhr schrieb Adam Fedor:
>
> > The files are all part of the base library, not additions to it
>
> In some cases, it might make sense to use/compile only parts of it as 
> with the apple-apple-* combo. 

Let me try to clarify this.  -base implements the FoundationKit as 
defined by OPENSTEP plus many of the extensions found in the current 
Cocoa Foundation.  To be compatible in the sense that "user" code can 
compile code against both Apple's Foundation and -base, -base installs a 
directory called Foundation which includes all NS*.h files also found in 
Cocoa's Foundation.

Now gnustep-base has extensions of it's own (GSMime, GSXML, ...) In all 
*-gnu-* variants of -base (ie. when the "Foundation-compatible" library 
is gnustep-base, these extensions are compiled into libgnustep-base 
library.  For apple-apple-* -base offers the possibility to be compiled 
with add=yes so that only the extensions are compiled into a library 
calls libgnustep-baseadd.

Independant of these two configurations, the public headers of these 
gnustep extensions should all be installed in Headers/gnustep/base (This 
is currently the case for most GS*.h files but not for all.)  There 
should be no reason to installl any GS*.h headers into Foundation.  My 
proposal was to fix the GS*.h headers that are currently installed in 
Foundation to be installed to gnustep/base where they belong

> > Practically, we're only suppling the base-additions library for macosx.
>
> Which is great: You can use GDL2 on OS X without installing GNUstep. 
> Just check out gnustep-base/Source/Additions, compile it into a 
> framework and there you go (slightly idealized). 

Actually the point was to install -make, -baseadd and -gdl2.  It seems 
building-baseadd on apple-apple-* was broken but should be fixed now.  
(Unless there is still something with behaviors as Adam mentioned, but 
as I don't have OS X, I'd need further information on what exactly is 
going wrong.)

> Before I heard of -baseadd I had to collect my own version of it and I 
> still have to change a lot of #includes in GDL2. 

There should be no need to change anything in gdl2, if you install -make 
and -baseadd as they are currently meant to be installed.  If there is, 
please let me know and I'll try to fix it.

Cheers,
David