Re: GNUstep deployment question (on Windows)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 15 Mar 2006, at 23:33, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> > > Could I have created some bug by not updating the othere exe and  
> > > bundles?
> > > (shortly I updated only the gnustep-base & gui dlls)
> >
> >
> > Not unless you're USING the other exe files, one would presume.  
> > Doesn't this seem obvious?
> While it might seems obvious ;-)
> My concern was, perhaps, some of the API in Appkit & Foundation is  
> using these executable.
> For example, somtimes, gdnc (or another exe) is launched and stuff  
> like that....

Sure ... it depends what functionality you need in your own programs.

The base library may use two executables:
1. gdomap, if you attempt to create an *INTER HOST* distributed  
objects connection using NSSocketPortNameServer
2. gdnc, if you try to use NSDistributedNotificationCenter
The library will not use either of the executables if you don't use  
those features.

The gui may use:
1. gpbs, if you attempt to use NSPasteBoard (and indirectly if you  
use drag and drop in any of your windows)
2. gdnc indirectly ... since it uses NSDistributedNotificationCenter  
for NSWorkspace notifications (including notification that the app  
has launched) and notification of startup of gpbs if you use the  
pasteboard.
3. make_services is run by NSWorkspace to ensure that the cache of  
info about apps is kept updated.

In effect, that means that gdnc is almost certain to be used by any  
'normal' application, but if you are not launching an application (ie  
calling the NSApplication -run method) and are not using any of the  
above classes directly, you are unlikely to be using any of the  
executables.