Re: gnustep-make on OSX

[Helge Hess]

On Freitag, Dezember 20, 2002, at 03:30  Uhr, Nicola Pero wrote:
> Yes ... I'd probably like to change the library combo for OSX from
> nx-nx-nx to apple-apple-apple.
>
> In theory I should have kept support for the three building options, 
> gnu,
> nx, apple, as you say ... but it started to get complex, so I dropped 
> the
> oldest and (frankly) obsolete one.

While agree that the nx combo isn't really important, I can't follow 
how it leads to complexity ? (I'm again somewhat frightend[how is this 
word written ;-)] that library combos are going to be consider too 
"complex").

> It's just to simplify maintaintenance that I did it.  I can rewrite and
> recast code more freely this way.  I had no way to check the old code, 
> and
> looking at it, I also think it was already broken.

Hm, maybe. At least the old code contained code which once produced 
valid NeXTstep entities and removing it altogether removes knowledge 
... ;-)

> > BTW: A major problem is that Finder doesn't support reading 
> > GNUstep.sh,
> > which implies that you either need to start all GNUstep related
> > programs (including PBX) from the shell or patch
> > .MacOSX/environment.plist to include/define all required environment
> > variables statically.
> Hmmm.

I thought about that one. It's less a problem in practice. Since in the 
nx-nx-nx combo GNUstep is only used for building, we can just use a 
shell-script "gsmake" from PBX which sources GNUstep.sh and calls make.

> > > There is a particular trick which I have in mind to get there ...
> > > which is
> > > that library.make will actually build frameworks on OSX ... but I 
> > > need
> > > to
> > > experiment with this.  :-)
> >
> > Hm, good idea ! This would solve me a lot of problems and does more or
> > less exactly what I need.
>
> Ok - I'll go on with it.

:-) Is there already something new for OSX in CVS ?

[Umbrella Frameworks]
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Not immediately, but maybe later.

;-) OK.

BTW: in OSX you can bundle frameworks in any bundle. Eg for 
distribution you can add all required frameworks into the application 
bundle. All this makes it very easy to install apps for the user.

Greetings
  Helge