Re: Defaults for a minimal embedded GNUstep tool

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Sep 2004, at 17:41, Alex Perez wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > On 6 Sep 2004, at 16:39, Pablo Di Noto wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Can I set default values into the tool (using no external files) to
> > > avoid those messages? Where should I look for examples?
> >
> > Not really ... but you can silence the thing programmatically either 
> > by
> > changing the descriptor that NSLog writes to, or by replacing the
> > handler function which performs the write.
> >
> > See base/Source/NSLog.m for details.  This stuff should be documented
> > properly, but is pretty hard to find right now I'm afraid.
> >
> > However ... if you have no resources ... you have no characterset
> > information ... I'd be worried about that in almost any program.
> > The timezone stuff is less critical.
>
> It should be falling back on POSIX envvars for this sort of stuff when
> no defaults file is present and/or these defaults are not set. If it's
> not, that should probably be
> considered a bug.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, we are not looking at an issue of selecting
options etc via defaults or environment variables here ...
the idea is to have a standalone tool without the GNUstep system ...
which means without things like timezone data, information on things 
like
which unicode characters are considered to be uppercase letters,
localised message text etc.

The program may be intended to operate in a particular set of
circumstances where none of these things are required ... (indeed, Pablo
says the program works ... which would seem to confirm that) in which 
case
it does not seem unreasonable to want to silence warnings about the
fact that they are not available.