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Re: Raising GNUstep's Profile
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Adam Fedor |
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Re: Raising GNUstep's Profile |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:51:15 -0600 |
On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:08 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
Hi,
Looking through the latest set of developer docs from Apple, I see a
lot of things that say `Available on OS X 10.x or later.' It occurred
to me that, once these features exist on GNUstep, it might be
beneficial to release a framework that could be included with new
applications to support these classes on older versions of OS X.
Developers could then target the latest version of OS X, and still
deploy on older ones. As an added bonus (or the main point, depending
on your perspective), they would then see that their code would also
run nicely on GNUstep, which would help raise awareness among Cocoa
developers.
Good idea? Unworkable idea?
Well it seems almost like a separate project, although helpful to
GNUstep. But then, how is the developer going to incorporate the
framework? It would have to be separate from the application and only
installed if it is on an older mac version (and maybe different
frameworks for each version?). Seems like a packaging nightmare.
Although perhaps the app could determine the version and load the
proper framework at runtime.
What we really need is someone to just document what changes have been
made in each version, so we know where we stand.