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Re: XML idea
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Alex Perez |
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Re: XML idea |
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Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:18:17 -0800 |
On Jan 8, 2004, at 2:48 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:
It would be nice if the PortabilityKit team finished some of the
classes
that are semi-portable between GNUstep and Cocoa (such as the
NSDocument architecture, for example).
Do the PortabilityKit team plan to submit fixes for classes already in
GNUstep?
If what they want to achieve is easy portability, it would be criminal
if
they didn't finish the unfinished classes in GNUstep :-)
I agree. Step number one is to document which classes are in fact
unfinished. If there are any/many you know of off the top of your head,
let me know, okay?
From the other side, I think GNUstep should remove
poorly-designed / unfinished classes (like NSToolBar and NSDrawer)
and let the PortabilityKit team implement them.
Why don't they just finish those classes and contribute them to
GNUstep ?
Politics, pure and simple.
It's easy to make everyone happy with stuff like NSToolBar. We put an
implementation in gnustep-gui. If you are an OpenStep purist and don't
want to use it, you don't use it - you can ignore it. If you are an
Apple-compatible guy and want to use it, you use it. I don't see why
we
should remove NSToolBar from gnustep-gui. The problem arises when
adding
Apple compatibility pollutes or confuses the original OpenStep classes
(then, we need a "superior workaround"). Adding an additional separate
class does not.
I know at least one core developer who will likely fight the inclusion
of NSToolbar. Many think Apple's Toolbar implementation sucks. In
PortabilityKit, we don't make those kind of value-based decisions about
classes, because that's not what the project is about.
--
Alex Perez
aperez@student.santarosa.edu
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat
it."
--Thomas Jefferson
- Re: XML idea, (continued)
- Re: XML idea, Adam Fedor, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea, Alex Perez, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea, Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea, Alex Perez, 2004/01/09
- Re: XML idea, Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2004/01/09
- Re: XML idea, Alex Perez, 2004/01/10
- Re: XML idea, Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2004/01/09
- Re: XML idea, Helge Hess, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/01/09
- Re: XML idea, Pete French, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea,
Alex Perez <=
- Re: XML idea, Nicola Pero, 2004/01/08
- Re: XML idea, Alex Perez, 2004/01/08
- PortabilityKit (was: Re: XML idea), Chris B. Vetter, 2004/01/09
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., thisguyisi, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/01/12
- Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa..., Fred Kiefer, 2004/01/12