Re: PrjectCenter (and Gorm) ask for old gnustep-base library in FreeBSD 11.1

[David Chisnall]

On 9 Nov 2017, at 02:07, Edwin Ancaer <eancaer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I think it is important to have a standard setup when asking for help 
> on the maillist.
> J will do   a reinstall this weekend, and then use pkg install for all my 
> installations.
> 
> For this cenon package, I don't mind giving it a try. Is it ok if I install 
> 10.4?
> And then I do pkg install xenon?

We’re currently not building packages for cenon on 10, because the build fails 
to install a nib file (which seems to be present in the source tarball, so no 
idea why not).  The same build works fine on 11.

> I'm currently on 11.1, and indeed, the package is installed, but the program 
> is not working (on my non-standard installation):
> [edwin@ottopedi ~]$ openapp Cenon
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.141 Cenon[4708:100117] styleoffsets ... guessing offsets
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.145 Cenon[4708:100117] styleoffsets ... guessing offsets
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.260 Cenon[4708:100117] Unsupported... This is an XCode 5 
> XIB file.
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.277 Cenon[4708:100117] Could not instantiate Xib 
> unarchiver/Unable to parse Xib.
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.281 Cenon[4708:100117] Failed to load Xib
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.288 Cenon[4708:100117] Unsupported... This is an XCode 5 
> XIB file.
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.304 Cenon[4708:100117] Could not instantiate Xib 
> unarchiver/Unable to parse Xib.
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.304 Cenon[4708:100117] Failed to load Xib
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.307 Cenon[4708:100117] Cannot load the main model file 
> 'Main'
> 2017-11-09 02:59:10.330 Cenon[4708:100117] Problem posting notification: 
> <NSException: 0x2c6527d0> NAME:NSInvalidArgumentException 
> REASON:-[NSFileManager createSymbolicLinkAtPath:withDestinationPath:error:]: 
> unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x2a1a6f10 INFO:(null)

Hmm, it looks as if no one has tested the latest upstream cenon release on 
GNUstep at all then - is anyone looking at adding XCode 5 xib support?  Does 
this depend on using the constraint-solving layout stuff (this shouldn’t be too 
difficult to add, I believe Apple uses a third-party LGPL library for the 
constraint solving - Nicolas Roard had some autolayout stuff using the same 
library about 10-15 years ago)?

David