Re: [RFC] Header organization of -base & -gui

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 05:49 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> Well this is a decision that just has to be made explicit before we 
> can continue...
>
> a) We leave the gnustep/ directory (and also leave gnustep/base, 
> gnustep/gui) and install Foudation (when applicable) at top level 
> (well, with --disable-flattened under the library combo) and require 
> -make to install gnustep.
> b) We move everything to the the top level and support custom OS X / 
> PB projects.
>
> I personally have no preference.  Yet, I would prefer a final decision 
> soon though.  And we should at least inform -discuss about the 
> decision before we commit anything affecting this.

I'd rather not add too many top-level header directories. But one of 
the points of these changes was to support packages like frameworks. So 
we should probably do (b) but be picky about what we want to install...


> > But if they're going to be moved...
> >
> > > David Ayers wrote:
> > >
> > > gnustep/unicode -> GNUstepBase/unicode/
> > >
> > > gnustep/x11 -> GNUstepX11
> > > gnustep/xlib -> GNUstepXLib
> > > gnustep/gsc -> GNUstepGSC
> > > or
> > > gnustep/x11 -> GNUstepBack/x11
> > > gnustep/xlib -> GNUstepBack/xlib
> > > gnustep/gsc -> GNUstepBack/gsc
> > Definitely the second option, _if_ we're going to install these at 
> > all.
> I'd prefer not install them at all, if they are not meant to be public.

Yes. The back headers were installed when the API was young and some 
developers needed them to get access to X Windows. I don't think that's 
necessary anymore except in the rare case where some one is trying to 
implement something very backend specific and the API to handle it 
isn't defined.

> > > I'm not sure whether we should touch these, but if so:
> > >
> > > gnustep/extensions -> FoundationExt/extensions
> > > gnustep/objc -> FoundationExt/objc
> > >
> > > I'm leaning toward updating then because some of the above seem to 
> > > rely
> > > on -Ixxx/gnustep
> >
> > That should be fixed, but we don't to move things around to do that;
> > removing the -I.../gnustep is enough.
> Depending on "the decision", I'll try to insure either
> "gnustep/extensions/*.h"
> "gnustep/objc/*.h"
> or
> "FoundationExt/extenstions/*.h"
> "FoundationExt/objc/*.h"

Doesn't matter to me. The Foundation Extensions is completely 
unsupported (as far as I am concerned) and technically shouldn't even 
be in the repository (wrong license). I've kept it there because the db 
and gsweb library needed it. Hopefully we can transition away from it.