Re: XML idea

[Helge Hess]

On 09.01.2004, at 00:12, Alex Perez wrote:
> > I like that idea as well.
> However, this does not address the issue of what to do with crap 
> classes
> which were poorly designed on Apple's part...Would those be included?

Exactly. IMHO there should be a voting of the core people for each 
class/part. The voting result needs to be documented on the website.

BTW: of course first there should be a voting on who is considered to 
be core people, something like the GNOME board. Sometimes it seems to 
me that some people claim "ownership" on GNUstep just because they are 
being the most noisy ones on IRC.
I was *pleasantly* surprised on that small but significant sidenote of 
you: "Ultimately, this decision rests with Adam". Thanks for stating 
that basic rule.

> excluded? See the problem? This doesnt fix the problem. It makes it 
> more
> complicated.

No, in my understanding Richard's opinion - which mirrors mine - is to 
include all classes which are part of Cocoa and be a reasonable clone 
of Cocoa as long as it doesn't break basic OpenStep compatibility.

Now gstep-base could have a switch "--strict-openstep" or 
"--without-cocoa" to disable those classes and keeping them in a 
separate folder should keep people who do not care about compatibility 
happy.

To me standards (whether industry [read: Apple] or written down) is way 
more important than a suboptimal implementation.

Greets,
  Helge
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