Re: problem with gworkspace-0.9.0 and gnustep-base-1.23.0

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Sunday, October 2, 2011 19:30 CEST, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote: 
 
> On 02.10.2011 19:01, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > On 10/01/11 23:07, Julian Mayer wrote:
> >>> gnustep-gui-0.20.0, gnustep-back-0.20.1
> >>> gnustep-base to the new 1.23.0
> >>
> >> i think i have encountered the same problem, this package combination just 
> >> doesn't work. it didn't even compile for me until i linked preface.h to 
> >> GSConfig.h, and afterwards all but the most simplest programs wouldn't run.
> > I just removed the inclusion of preface.h, which worked well for me.
> > After testing a couple of more programs, it seems all are kind of broken
> > with this combination of last released versions of gnustep core stuff.
> >
> >> i mentioned on the IRC channel that the current package combination as 
> >> offered from the download page doesn't work, but it didn't seem to concern.
> >>
> >> using SVN trunk instead works just fine.
> > I'm packaging for OpenBSD, so taking the whole stuff from svn, doesn't
> > work out. I also don't know which fix in svn to take to make it work
> > with latest gnustep-base, so for the time being, I have to stick with
> > 1.22.2.
> >
> > I guess the problem is somewhere in -gui. Would it be too much effort to
> > just release a bugfix/compatibility release which fixes this
> > incompatibility? Right now, this doesn't give a good impression when the
> > latest releases don't work well together...
> 
> Yes, the problem is in gui, but it originated from a change in base. 
> NSAttributedString no longer works with nil as the string (this changes 
> was done for compatibility with Cocoa) and so some methods in gui that 
> relied on the old behaviour need to be changed. Eric did so on the 21st 
> of July, but it will take a few more days before we will be ready to 
> release a new version of gui.

good to hear. I'm not in a hurry, can wait a couple of days or few weeks.
Right now I'm experimenting with clang/libobjc2 again on OpenBSD. It seems to 
not crash randomly anymore (which is better than half a year or so ago when I 
tried last time), but still applications seem to be unusable. Will open a new 
thread for that topic...

cheers,
Sebastian

> Sorry for that, it is mostly my fault, I need to add a few more things 
> to gui before the release.

> 
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