Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Feb 2006, at 01:04, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> Richard/Andy,
>
> This gives me an idea.   Instead of a split, why not simply make  
> those DO classes non-functional given a parameter.   This allow  
> developers to use base as a library without the need for daemons,  
> and it would avoid a messy and, possibly, unnatural, split in the  
> base lib.

Well that's really what I was proposing ... except that we mostly  
don't need to make anything non-functional, and where a feature is  
non functional, we don't need  a parameter to make it that way.

As it currently stands, all you *need* to use base as a library  
without daemons (or any resource files) is to delete/not-install  
those daemons and resource files.
What we need a parameter for is to get base to refrain from issueing  
warning messages (you can already disable warning/error logs of  
course, but it would be nice to only disable warnings about missing  
external resource files).

Actually ... I'm getting the impression that the best thing to do  
might just be not warn about missing external resources if the  
library is installed in a path other than System/Library/Libraries