Eric,
As David suggests, it would be best to make the changes you are
discussing on a branch. This would avoid breaking the trunk.
The "pure Cocoa" route, by the way, is preferable for me since
GNUstep doesn't implement any of the CF* (or Core Foundation)
functions.. and there are no plans to do that within GNUstep itself.
Thanks, GJC
--
Gregory Casamento
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From: David Hill <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: Greg Casamento <address@hidden>; Steve Nygard
<address@hidden>; gnuspeech <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:47:19 PM
Subject: Re: cvs
Hi Eric,
You need to coordinate with Greg Casamento and Steve Nygard. Adam
Fedor did a lot of work originally to change the NeXT code to
OpenStep/Cocoa and Greg is working on the GNUStep port. At the very
least, if you are making big changes, you probably ought to work on a
split and merge later when it can be shown that you haven't caused
problems.
In response to you latest comment that this ought to be posted to the
list -- yes. I should have thought of that. I'll post them and then
post this.
Live long and prosper!
david
On Oct 15, 2006, at 8:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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
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