On Sunday, October 2, 2011 19:30 CEST, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02.10.2011 19:01, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > On 10/01/11 23:07, Julian Mayer wrote: > >>> gnustep-gui-0.20.0, gnustep-back-0.20.1 > >>> gnustep-base to the new 1.23.0 > >> > >> i think i have encountered the same problem, this package combination just > >> doesn't work. it didn't even compile for me until i linked preface.h to > >> GSConfig.h, and afterwards all but the most simplest programs wouldn't run. > > I just removed the inclusion of preface.h, which worked well for me. > > After testing a couple of more programs, it seems all are kind of broken > > with this combination of last released versions of gnustep core stuff. > > > >> i mentioned on the IRC channel that the current package combination as > >> offered from the download page doesn't work, but it didn't seem to concern. > >> > >> using SVN trunk instead works just fine. > > I'm packaging for OpenBSD, so taking the whole stuff from svn, doesn't > > work out. I also don't know which fix in svn to take to make it work > > with latest gnustep-base, so for the time being, I have to stick with > > 1.22.2. > > > > I guess the problem is somewhere in -gui. Would it be too much effort to > > just release a bugfix/compatibility release which fixes this > > incompatibility? Right now, this doesn't give a good impression when the > > latest releases don't work well together... > > Yes, the problem is in gui, but it originated from a change in base. > NSAttributedString no longer works with nil as the string (this changes > was done for compatibility with Cocoa) and so some methods in gui that > relied on the old behaviour need to be changed. Eric did so on the 21st > of July, but it will take a few more days before we will be ready to > release a new version of gui.
good to hear. I'm not in a hurry, can wait a couple of days or few weeks. Right now I'm experimenting with clang/libobjc2 again on OpenBSD. It seems to not crash randomly anymore (which is better than half a year or so ago when I tried last time), but still applications seem to be unusable. Will open a new thread for that topic... cheers, Sebastian > Sorry for that, it is mostly my fault, I need to add a few more things > to gui before the release. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
