Re: GDL2 - patches for OSX (1)

[Stéphane Corthésy]

Hi,

On Wednesday, Mar 26, 2003, at 09:42 Europe/Zurich, David Ayers wrote:

> Nicola Pero wrote:
>
> > There is a global macro, GNUSTEP_WITH_DLL, which is defined if 
> > compiling
> > on Win32.
> >
> > If that's all what you want to check, check for GNUSTEP_WITH_DLL.
> Yes that was what I meant.  Which brings up an interesting question...
> Do we support Apple's ProjectBuilder generated makefiles and makefile 
> system, (which I believe Stéphane is using)?  Personally I would like 
> to avoid this because:
> a) Maintianers need an OS X to verify that things are working
> b) Makefiles and headers will get cluttered with constructs to support 
> both make systems
> c) Nicola goes through a lot of effort to insure gnustep-make works on 
> OS X.
> (d) I would prefer patches which include the necessary GNUmakefile 
> changes as we have to make them anyway.)


Apple's ProjectBuilder doesn't use Makefiles by default: they use jam 
instead of make, and the jam file is created on-the-fly by PB during 
compilation. No risk of cluttering Makefiles.
Headers need some modifications, whatever make system is used, because 
I use Apple's Foundation instead of GNUstep's.
I don't know whether Nicola wants to support Apple's runtime too: do 
the makefiles support it, or do they support only GNUstep's?
Personally I prefer using PB, because I find it's a good IDE. I can 
easily maintain project, perform changes, searches, edition of code. Of 
course it's a different make system that would need to be maintained 
separately.
Anyway, if you prefer not including in the official distribution, no 
problem: I will maintain it and provide people an up-to-date version, 
as well as for other projects like gnustep base, gsantlr and gsweb. I 
let you maintain your makefiles, I won't use them: my target is OSX 
currently.

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Stéphane