[gnuspeech-contact] Re: cvs

[Gregory John Casamento]

Eric,

As David suggests, it would be best to make the changes you are discussing on a 
branch.   This would avoid breaking the trunk.   

The "pure Cocoa" route, by the way, is preferable for me since GNUstep doesn't 
implement any of the CF* (or Core Foundation) functions.. and there are no 
plans to do that within GNUstep itself.

Thanks, GJC 
--
Gregory Casamento

----- Original Message ----
From: David Hill <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: Greg Casamento <address@hidden>; Steve Nygard <address@hidden>; gnuspeech 
<address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:47:19 PM
Subject: Re: cvs

Hi Eric,

You need to coordinate with Greg Casamento and Steve Nygard.  Adam  
Fedor did a lot of work originally to change the NeXT code to  
OpenStep/Cocoa and Greg is working on the GNUStep port.  At the very  
least, if you are making big changes, you probably ought to work on a  
split and merge later when it can be shown that you haven't caused  
problems.

In response to you latest comment that this ought to be posted to the  
list -- yes.  I should have thought of that.  I'll post them and then  
post this.

Live long and prosper!

david


On Oct 15, 2006, at 8:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Oh, one more thing. The way I am doing the port to OS X may be more  
> 'invasive' than what you had in mind. As I am going through the  
> source code, I am essentially changing everything that is done in a  
> C/C++ style (such as the use of C strings, const char * , etc.) and  
> changing them to use the equivalent Objective-C classes (e.g.  
> NSString).  Also, there are places that use data structures such as  
> an NXHashtable which in the OS X world is a "core foundation" class  
> (CFHashtable or some such), which is part of Carbon. While these  
> core foundation classes would work fine in Cocoa as well, I am  
> changing these to use the equivalent Cocoa Objective-C class (such  
> as NSDictionary); essentially I am taking a pure Cocoa approach.
>
> Furthermore, none of the NEXTstep Objective-C code will work as-is  
> in Cocoa. On the most basic level, at least the NX prefixes on all  
> the Objective-C classes have to be changed to NS prefixes.
>
> Here is my concern, however: while all this is a good way to port  
> the application to a native Cocoa application, and is a good way  
> for me to learn all about Cocoa on OS X, I have no idea what the  
> implications to this are for the port to GNUstep.
>
> Eric
>

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