Re: import vs include Re: Porting autogsdoc to OSX

[Marcus Müller]

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 07:46 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 06:32 PM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> > > Finally, I don't think the autogsdoc example is particularly 
> > > relevant ...
> > > it was meant to be an internal GNUstep base tool, and only recently
> > > Richard changed his mind :-) and thought it would be good to port it 
> > > to
> > > MacOSX.  So it's not particularly surprising that it depends on a lot 
> > > of
> >
> > What? I thought that was my idea - hence the reason for the whole 
> > thread.
>
> It was your idea .. but Nicola was right ... you changed my mind - I 
> had not
> thought anyone would want it on MacOS

Hear hear! I deserve the credits for having started the latest 
flamewar! ;-))

> I thought that maybe just having a separate library, and having the base
> library depend upn that library (so it links it in) would be easier to 
> use
> than a bundle.
> I actually spent two minutes hacking in an option to the base library
> makefile to do this, putting GSXML and GSMime stuff in 
> libgnustep_baseadd
> as a proof of concept.
> So, certainly I want to mode stuff into a separate subdirectory within
> the base package, but I don't yet really know whether having the
> 'additions' stuff as a library or a bundle would be best.
>
> Anyway, we would then be able to do something like 'make additions=yes' 
> to
> build the additions stuff without the main base library.

Progress! :-)
That's exactly what I do need in order to make a framework project on OS 
X of it. I've identified a couple of categories which obviously can make 
it there, too. However, some things seem to be more constrained (because 
they refer to instance variables directly [for performance reasons I 
guess]) i.e. NSScanner's radix additions, which cannot easily be ripped 
out of base and expected to work on OS X for that matter. They need to 
be rewritten in parts (if one really needs it), but that's actually the 
problem of the OS X guys and shouldn't concern the core GNUsteppers. 
Later tonight I can make that stuff available on 
http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com for review - I don't have it on my 
laptop, unfortunately, and I'm still at work.

Cheers,

  Marcus


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