2008/11/29 Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, so we keep the Carbon code, but stop working on it. If someone > finds a problem, we'll ask him to try the Cocoa code. If he is on OS > 10.2 or 10.3 that won't be possible. I guess we are assuming there are > few people in this situation.
I don't think anybody wants to work on the Carbon code, so this sound good to me. It will never be possible to build MacVim.app on 10.3 or earlier so I also agree that we need to keep it around. > This would also mean I remove Mac items from the todo list. Perhaps > moving to the Mac help files as "known problems". Which Mac help files though? os_mac.txt? That would be the natural candidate since it at the moment only contains things relating to the Carbon version. I created gui_mac.txt for all the MacVim.app related help (this file does not exist in the Carbon version). > Trying to include the Cocoa code into the main code every one or two > weeks looks pointless. I don't see what we gain with this. It's just > extra work. > > So, following this line of thought it would be better to keep the MacVim > and vim-cocoa available separatly. We can tell people where to download > it. I don't need to "bless" changes in that code, so it also saves me > time. I agree. I know I have advocated a "merge" in the past, but at this point in time I don't see any gain (only the obstacles you mentioned Bram). > A potential problem for this method is that I make changes in the main > code that make it difficult to merge back with the Mac version. It's > potential, because I haven't heard of such a problem happening yet. And > the two parts of the source code are nearly completely separate. Only > when I change the interface between the core and the various GUI > implementations there could be a problem. This will happen infrequently > and most likely will not be much work (e.g., changing tab page labels). During MacVim's entire lifetime I have never had any such problems so I am not too worried about this. Of course when something like this eventually _does_ happen I'll surely be taken entirely be surprise (but I can deal with it then)... ;-) Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
