Re: Some random thoughs and questions on the future of GNUstep

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> Most of the "maintenance" is really needed because of the need to  
> support GNUstep-specific directory layouts, library combos, frameworks,  
> various types of bundles and plists, etc. ;-)

I'll wait and see how much of the efforts put in CMake's Mac OS X support  
I can salvage for use for GNUstep. I also got to take a look at gsjam  
sometime.

> I suggest that to reduce maintenance, we reduce the amount of 'very
> custom' things that
> we support, and try to converge into a more 'standard' setup. ;-)

Hum, what exactly are these 'custom things' anyway? I thought GNUstep Make  
basically recurses into subprojects and resource directories and does,  
well, stuff. Applications are compiled and copied to the app folder along  
with their resources; libraries are compiled, copied to a directory, their  
resources in the Frameworks directory or somewhere else; the end.  
Variations of bundles shoudldn't be that hard to support me thinks.


By the way, since no one raised any concerns about my other ideas yet, I  
take it that everybody likes them and will put all his effort into making  
them a reality, yes? :P