Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Pantomime with CoreBase

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 2012-08-21 11:35:30 +0000 "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was investigating a lot of the #if(n)def MACOSX in Pantomime and 
> found that 
> many (most) deal with CoreFoundation on the Mac.
> Since GNUstep now has CoreBase, I thought about hey, it would be a 
> good idea 
> to reduce differences between Mac and GNUstep, in order to figure 
> out, why 
> GNUMail behaves differently on those systems.

I am actually not so fond of all this Core* stuff and would rather not 
add a dependency on CoreBase. However since on Mac it uses at least a 
part of CoreFoundation, it might be again to reduce complexity. I 
consider CoreBase though "experimental", it doesn't even work as you 
see. I also want to check how portable CoreBase it with older 
compilers, operating systems, etc.

It might be interesting on the long run to have a more maintainable 
code base, as are the GUI differences due to code gui generation vs. 
NIB files.

So I'd think that the next GNUMail+Pantomime release should not switch 
to CoreBase. We also have LuserNET depending on Pantomime. It should 
be a "fix" and maintenance release. Once that is done we can look 
forward and checking #ifdef's and reduce them and continue testing 
functionality. Collaborating with Stefan would be good.

Riccardo