Re: GNUstep cookbook.

[Tim Bissell]

On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 09:09 Europe/London, Andreas Heppel wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 2003-03-14 00:02:44 +0100 ibotty <ibotty@web.de> wrote:
>
> > i like it,
> Me, too.
> I believe we all started to do GNUstep programming by learning and 
> copying from others' code. A cookbook might make this easier.
OPENSTEP, and NeXTstep before it, both came with directories full of 
working programs which were there soley as examples of how to use 
certain parts of the APIs.  *step had an indexing/browsing tool called 
'Librarian.app' which could be used to index these directories (source 
code and readme files) which made it very easy to track down examples 
of how to use different widgets. MacOS X is the same, except they chose 
to dump the Librarian, and move to the truly appalling 'Help Viewer'.

I think a cookbook is an excellent idea; it should be arranged along 
these lines - could anyone check the copyright of the original NeXT 
examples and see if we could use any of them?  I think that 
applications like Ink could be part of the cookbook, and an excellent 
regression test of each release would be compiling and testing the 
cookbook examples.  We take this approach on my (non-GNUstep) project 
(www.openadaptor.org).

Tim



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