Re: import vs include Re: Porting autogsdoc to OSX

[Dirk Theisen]

HI, Richard!

> > But it has a minimalistic approach in supporting the MacOSX
> > Foundation, eg XML plists and HTTP URLs are added in user-level
> > libraries, not in the core itself, since this is *NOT* required at
> > all by the MacOSX Foundation API.
>
> Ah ... but we are trying to be compatible, not just use the same API.
> As much as possible we want to avoid having to locate and link
> additional frameworks to do what on MacOS is all in one. Not that
> there is anything particularly hard about linking in extra libraries,
> but why confuse developers by providing frameworks which have the
> same API but different functionality?

I do not see a real problem here. Apple and GNUstep use different build 
mechanisms, so we have to re-do that anyway during porting. Adding the 
GSFoundationExtensions framework to the project took less than a minute. 


I would also like to see a OSXFoundationExtensions bundle(?) on GNUstep.

Regards,
Dirk

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