Re: problem with gworkspace-0.9.0 and gnustep-base-1.23.0

[Fred Kiefer]

On 02.10.2011 19:01, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> On 10/01/11 23:07, Julian Mayer wrote:
> > > gnustep-gui-0.20.0, gnustep-back-0.20.1
> > > gnustep-base to the new 1.23.0
> >
> > i think i have encountered the same problem, this package combination just 
> > doesn't work. it didn't even compile for me until i linked preface.h to 
> > GSConfig.h, and afterwards all but the most simplest programs wouldn't run.
> I just removed the inclusion of preface.h, which worked well for me.
> After testing a couple of more programs, it seems all are kind of broken
> with this combination of last released versions of gnustep core stuff.
>
> > i mentioned on the IRC channel that the current package combination as offered 
> > from the download page doesn't work, but it didn't seem to concern.
> >
> > using SVN trunk instead works just fine.
> I'm packaging for OpenBSD, so taking the whole stuff from svn, doesn't
> work out. I also don't know which fix in svn to take to make it work
> with latest gnustep-base, so for the time being, I have to stick with
> 1.22.2.
>
> I guess the problem is somewhere in -gui. Would it be too much effort to
> just release a bugfix/compatibility release which fixes this
> incompatibility? Right now, this doesn't give a good impression when the
> latest releases don't work well together...

Yes, the problem is in gui, but it originated from a change in base. 
NSAttributedString no longer works with nil as the string (this changes 
was done for compatibility with Cocoa) and so some methods in gui that 
relied on the old behaviour need to be changed. Eric did so on the 21st 
of July, but it will take a few more days before we will be ready to 
release a new version of gui.
Sorry for that, it is mostly my fault, I need to add a few more things 
to gui before the release.