Re: "multiple inheritence" / behavior

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> The extensions library is (unless things have changed) not an official 
> part of GNUstep ... the code has never been contributed to the FSF as 
> far as I know, and has neve been supported as part of GNUstep. 

Interesting, I hadn't realized this.

> I've spent a chunk of the weekend going through the gdl2 code to 
> remove any dependencies on the extensions library and might get round 
> to providing a patch to do that soon (I'm a bit hampered by being 
> unfamiliar with gdl2 and having no test code to see if it still works 
> after my changes).

Hmm. I can't give you code to test. (Maybe I'll find time next week to 
submit some regression tests.) But if you send your patches to me (maybe 
privatly), I can try it on the code I'm porting and tell you the results.

> I think the behavior.h file has always been public in the base 
> library. It is installed in /usr/GNUstep/System/Headers/gnustep/base 
> along with most other non-Foundation headers, but It's not documented 
> though, and the comments in the source/headers warn about using it ... 
> probably that should be changed (ie. documentation added and warnings 
> updated/clarified).

Perfect! Actually I realized that I should have looked there right after 
hiting 'send', and low and behold... :-)

Great.
Cheers,
Dave