Begin forwarded message: Date: October 15, 2006 8:32:28 PM PDT (CA) Subject: Re: cvs
Oh, one more thing. The way I am doing the port to OS X may be more 'invasive' than what you had in mind. As I am going through the source code, I am essentially changing everything that is done in a C/C++ style (such as the use of C strings, const char * , etc.) and changing them to use the equivalent Objective-C classes (e.g. NSString). Also, there are places that use data structures such as an NXHashtable which in the OS X world is a "core foundation" class (CFHashtable or some such), which is part of Carbon. While these core foundation classes would work fine in Cocoa as well, I am changing these to use the equivalent Cocoa Objective-C class (such as NSDictionary); essentially I am taking a pure Cocoa approach.
Furthermore, none of the NEXTstep Objective-C code will work as-is in Cocoa. On the most basic level, at least the NX prefixes on all the Objective-C classes have to be changed to NS prefixes.
Here is my concern, however: while all this is a good way to port the application to a native Cocoa application, and is a good way for me to learn all about Cocoa on OS X, I have no idea what the implications to this are for the port to GNUstep.
Eric
I was successful in committing my files to the repository. Things worked pretty much as expected for the most part.
A couple things I noticed:
Not all the binary files are tagged with -kb, which is usually done with CVS. This is even true in the other applications in the 'current' repository, not just the one I checked in. I don't know if this is a problem. It would be nice to have a .cvs_wrappers file that told CVS that file extensions .dmg, .nib, .icns, etc., are binary files.
There are files and directories that most likely backups that have the tilde character in them. Those probably don't need to be checked into the repository, but they are not being ignored by CVS and I've checked them in since I was uncertain about them. It might be good to put files with the tilde character on the cvs ignore list.
The new files I checked in are in current/Applications/PrEditor, which is a new directory I created.
Eric
On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:04 PM, David Hill wrote: Hi Eric,The support team at Savannah solved my problem. It was a browser-specific problem with Safari.
Ah! Now that is interesting. Maybe I'll have better success if I try setting things up with Firefox. I tried Opera and Safari and Opera seemed to get the key correctly registered. Maybe it was an illusion.
I'll wait to see how you get on.
All good wishes.
david
------ Using Firefox solved the problem, and no longer truncated the key. So now I have an SSH public key registered with Savannah.
So now (or tomorrow) I'll go ahead and try to check out the repository in my name, and then checkin my files for the PrEditor port.
Eric
On Oct 13, 2006, at 8:46 PM, David Hill wrote: Hi Eric,
I added your username to the project as a member. It may take a while before it gets through the system.
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