Re: XML idea

[Alex Perez]

I am in no way advocating a fork. Read below. This project tries to 
actively AVOID a fork, as a matter of fact...

> Alex Perez wrote:
> >>And that's fine, I think.  So long as it's included in the core 
> >>download.  People shouldn't have to go download this, download that, 
> >>download the other thing, just to get "portable" code to work.
> > 
> > As much as I would personally like to see this happen, it likely never 
> > will for a variety of reasons. First of all, this gives the impression 
> > that PortabilityKit is part of the GNUstep project, which it is not. Maybe 
> > a good compromise might be a script that sits in the root of core/ which 
> > would auto-get portabilityKit via CVS. This could present a few lines of 
> > test saying that it is not an official part of GNUstep, use, at your own 
> > risk, we dont support it, blah blah blah...Would any GNUstep core members 
> > care to comment on what they think of this idea?
> > 
> As much as I like to see diversity, I really don't like the idea of 
> forking GNUstep. We already do have myStep, which in my opinion should 
> only exist as another GNUstep backend. There is no need to over play the 
> differences, that may exist on the amount of Cocoa extensions which 
> should be added to GNUstep. Up to now we have been able to find a 
> solution for all the contributed code. It is mostly the writing of code, 
> that is missing.
> What I would like to see here is a bit of configuration for the GNUstep 
> libraries. If there is an OpenStep purist, he/she should be able to 
> compile GNUstep base and gui with as mininal extensions to the OpenStep 
> specification as possible (Here I mean a bit more than the current usage 
> of STRICT_OPENSTEP). And a Cocoa aficionado could set another switch to 
> get as much support as possible. The rest of us "moderates" would of 
> course get the best of two worlds. But here I realize, I must be dreaming.
Yes, I suggest --with-PortabilityKit and I don't think you're dreaming at 
all. I think you're on the right track af a matter of fact.