Richard,
--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
Back when framework support for gnu/linux was first introduced, Helge argued
for *not* introducing frameworks, on the grounds that they add no
functionality but supporting/maintaining them implies time-wasting
overtheads. Now that they have been around for a while, I tend to agree
with him, and while I don't work on the make system and the framework code
myself, so I'm not about to do anything there, if there was a move to drop
framework support entirely, I certainly wouldn't argue against it, and I'd
defintely adviuse anyone attempting to write portable code to use the
simpler bundle mechanism.
I don't know exactly what Nicola means by 'not supported' on windows ... it
might mean that he has no intention of ever trying to get frameworks to work
there, it might mean that he hasn't had the time. From previous discussion
on the way frameworks are implemented elsewhere, I don't think anyone has
even figured out a way to implement them on windows without making multiple
copies of files cluttering things up (and introducing tremendous fragility),
or persuading compiler/linker people to build in support for them.
It would be nice if we could find some way to support them as they seem to be a
nice way of keeping resources in one place. But if they're not supported on
all platforms, I won't use the for the time being in Gorm.