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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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