Re: Gorm: data.classes -- slight format change

[Gregory John Casamento]

All,

And, of course this goes without saying, but just to be clear....

The 0.8.7 and later versions of Gorm will, of course, be able to read .gorm
files with the older data.classes format seamlessly.

Later, GJC

--- Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Previously Gorm would save any and all methods which exist on FirstResponder
> to
> the data.classes file.   As of 0.8.7, however, this has changed.   The
> FirstResponder entry will only contain those methods which the user has added
> explicitly to FirstResponder or to another class (which automatically adds to
> FirstResponder).   If there are no additional methods, the entry will not be
> added.
> 
> There are a few reasons for this change:
> 
> 1) It's more efficient.
> 2) It's closer to how IB does it.
> 3) It allows .gorm files which are older to reflect changes to
> ClassInformation.plist when methods are added to FirstResponder there when
> they
> are loaded.
> 4) It is the best possible fix to bug#11534.
> 
> Impacts:
> 
> The only impact of this change is that Gorm-0.8.0 may not be able to fully
> edit
> files which are created with Gorm-0.8.7 without manually editing the
> data.classes file (not recommended).   i.e. no "forward" compatibility.
> 
> There is -=NO=-, I repeat, -=NO=- impact to the use of these .gorm files in
> applications since the data.classes file is only used when Gorm.app edits
> them.
>   
> 
> Please let me know of any problems, questions, etc.
> 
> I will write the list with further updates, if necessary.
> 
> Thanks, GJC
> 
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> #### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.
> 
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Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A Maryland Corporation)
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.