Eric, As David suggests, it would be best to make the changes you are discussing on a branch. This would avoid breaking the trunk.
The "pure Cocoa" route, by the way, is preferable for me since GNUstep doesn't implement any of the CF* (or Core Foundation) functions.. and there are no plans to do that within GNUstep itself. Thanks, GJC -- Gregory Casamento ----- Original Message ---- From: David Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greg Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Steve Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; gnuspeech <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:47:19 PM Subject: Re: cvs 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 > [snip] _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
