Re: What should and should not go in?

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 24 Jan 2004, at 05:25, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I am wondering where all of the fuss about "this was not in OpenStep 
> > and
> > therefore shouldn't go in" is coming from, as I've been hearing this a 
> > lot
> > lately.
> 
> It's not coming from the GNUstep developers anyway ... I have not 
> noticed
> any GNUstep developer say that all MacOS-X extensions should be kept
> out of GNUstep.  Even Alexanders objections to NSToolBar (which are
> specific to that class) might well be swayed if someone contributed 
> good,
> clean, simple. mantainable code.

I hope so. :)

> >  OpenStep is a standard that was created in 1994, a decade ago, that
> > standard is dated to say the least.  So, why would we want to tie 
> > ourselves to
> > this especially when MOSX represents an extension of it?
> 
> I believe our policy statement has (for a long, long time) said that we 
> are
> (and will remain) OpenStep compatible AND that we track changes in 
> MacOS-X
> to remain compatible with that.   To me, that's pretty clear.
> The website also used to say that where the two are incompatible we will
> find workarounds and superior solutions :-)
> 
> What we need is to clearly define the types of things we 
> should/shouldn't

Agreed.

> > include in GNUstep.  Using the recent NSToolbar spat as an example, I,
> > personally, believe that we should put it in, despite any technical 
> > objections,
> > simply because it's used by a number of applications under MOSX and, 
> > with it's
> > inclusion, we'll attract those who've used it.   Now, I'm not saying 
> > that there
> > are tens of thousands of developers who want to use NSToolbar.  No.  
> > I'm
> > asserting that the more we stray from MOSX, the more we loose potential
> > developers and users.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Where MacOS-X classes are missing, it's because nobody has contributed
> a good implementation yet, not because there is any hidden policy to 
> keep
> them out.
> 

I know.   I added a list of the unimplemented classes to the tasks list.  My
concern was that I thought I was hearing a sentiment recently which was against
putting anything in that's not in the original spec.

GJC

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