Re: mframe?

[Scott Christley]

David Ayers wrote:

> > I have been using an older version of GNUstep, like version 1.6.0
> > for gnustep-base, for my porting work of Swarm to GNUstep. I got
> > the system working then had to put it aside for a few months; now
> > that I am back, I have moved forward to the most recent GNUstep in 
> > cvs and recompiled my code. One thing I discovered is that
> > mframe.h is no longer installed. Swarm use to have a local copy
> > of old-old mframe code from GNUstep(or maybe libobjects), but I
> > got rid of that and let it use the GNUstep functions instead,
> > Swarm worked just fine with them.
> >
> > Is it possible to publish the mframe headers again?
>
>
> Hello Scott,
>
> I made that header private during the header reorganization, as we 
> felt that this header shouldn't be part of the public API of -base.  
> Maybe you could explain what you need it for and why you think it 
> should be public.  Instead of making the header public again, I'd 
> rather have Swarm rely on the public API, even if that meant 
> augmenting it by adding the necessary functionality to GSObjCRuntime 
> (or the like). 

Richard suggested that I see about replacing Swarm's usage of mframe 
routines directly with NSInvocation, so I am going to look into that 
option.  Much like GNUstep itself, I think that Swarm only uses these 
routines in very specific and limited situations.  My only concern is 
how well NSInvocation works with non-NSObject rooted classes.

> PS: Is you port publicly available? 

Yes, the GNUstep ported code is on a CVS branch, 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swarm, though it is hardly finished 
and very hacked at the moment.

thanks
Scott