[PATCH/RFC] GSWeb - single GSW/WO namespace frameworks

[David Ayers]

Hello everyone,

Currently GSWeb builds all classes and globals with the GSW prefix and 
supplies WO prefixed subclasses for convenience to support both GSW and 
WO naming conventions at runtime. Both GSW and WO projects can compile 
againts this default framework, yet WO projects are subject to lots of 
compiler warnings about invalid pointer assignments as the class 
hierarchy of the WO classes isn't  clean.

This patch asserts that:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnustep-dev/2002-December/001137.html
will be commited soon :-) but let me drop this code anyway so you can 
take a look at it and giv me some feed back... So here it is...

This patch adds support to have the sources build and install seperate 
frameworks for each name space.
GSWeb/GSWeb_wo, GSWExtensions/GSWebExtensions_wo and 
GSWExtensionsGSW/GSWExtensionsGSW_wo
seperatly.

I think it will be best to branch (or at least tag) before commiting 
these changes. Maybe even change version number in the framework. Most 
of the changes in this patch are in the configuration, makefiles and 
headers (or rather thier inclusions).  Other places that currently 
support the hybrid namespaces will be dealt with later.

You may ./configure gsweb using: --with-gswnames=(gsw,wo,all) with 'all' 
being default.  This will determine which option the makefiles will use 
when not explicitly set during make invokation.  Yet you may "make 
gswnames=(gsw,wo,all) <target>" at any time, independant of you 
configuration.

GSW-Projects don't need to be touched at all, but you may want to remove 
some explicit linking agains the gsweb libs and merely include 
$(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/Auxiliary/gsweb.make.  These projects should also 
make sure only to include <GSWeb/file.h>,  
<GSWExtensions/file.h>, <GSWExtensionsGSW/file.h> but I believe that 
should generally be the case allready.

WO-Projects should include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/Auxiliary/gsweb_wo.make. 
They should also make sure only to include <WebObjects/file.h>, 
<WOExtensions/file.h> but I believe that also should generally be the 
case allready. (They may also include <GSWExtenstionsGSW_wo/file.h>)

If you wish to use a similar technique to build projects that compile 
against both versions, have a look at the GSWExtenstions subproject (or 
ask me :-) ).

New files needed by this patch :
gsweb/config.mak.in
gsweb/GSWExtensions.framework/WOExtensions.h
gsweb/GSWExtensions.framework/GSWExtensions.h
gsweb/GSWExtensions.framework/GSWExtWOCompatibility.h
gsweb/GSWExtensionsGSW.framework/GSWExtGSWWOCompatibility.h

Files to remove with this patch:
gsweb/config.mak
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WOApplication.h
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WOComponent.h
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WOContext.h
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WODirectAction.h
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WORequest.h
gsweb/GSWeb.framework/WebObjects/WOSession.h

I'd be pleased to get some feedback, but I probably won't be able to 
reply until about Monday or Tuesday.

Cheers,
Dave

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