Re: XML idea

[Fred Kiefer]

Fabien VALLON wrote:
> It would be nice if the PortabilityKit team finished some of the classes
> that are semi-portable between GNUstep and Cocoa (such as the
> NSDocument architecture, for example). 
> Do the PortabilityKit team plan to submit fixes for classes already in
> GNUstep?

Could you please explain a bit on this? A big junk of the document 
structure is already in GNUsteo GUI and has been usefull for years. At 
least to the degree which Ink needed. The new bits that are missing, 
should be added inplace. This is also a good example to see, that some 
Cocoa extensions cannot be done in a separate library. For example, 
changes in NSApplication where needed to support document handling.

I really would prefer to have the additional Cocoa classes in GUI and 
have a compiler switch to not include them. That way we could also 
remove the small bits needed in other classes to support them. But as I 
said, the bigger problem I see in in the writing of the code. We did not 
trund down the offer of any new class during the last year, as there was 
none.