Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 10:32, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2009, at 07:29, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > GlobalDefaults.plist does that.
>
> Two questions then:
>
> - Is this actually documented anywhere?  I see a vague reference to  
> it in NSUserDefaults, but packagers are absolutely not going to read  
> API docs (and should not be expected to.

With the documentation for GNUstep.conf in the main base library  
documentation (I put a link in an earlier email).
I think you have to be realistic ... a packager *does* have to read  
some documentation in order to package a big system like GNUstep  
properly.
It would undoubtedly be good to have some packager-specific  
documentation, but obviously the target readership is a very small  
group ....

> - How does this allow a packager to install and remove defaults as  
> part of package installation / uninstallation?  Presumably you can  
> use plmerge to install them (again, is this documented anywhere?),  
> but how do you uninstall them?

This is a text property list ... a packager would manage it in exactly  
the same way as any other text file they install/uninstall with their  
packaging system.
Probably something as simple as 'rm -rf /etc/GNUstep' when you are  
removing GNUstep from your system.