Re: PATCH: NSPathUtilities etc

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 04:58 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> Sheldon Gill wrote:
>
> > > Some more comments on NSPathUtilities.m. I think I'd be ready to 
> > > commit
> > > this after addressing these comments.
> > Excellent!  I'd be happy to update my submission and work with you in 
> > it's integration.
>
> I understand that you are trying to address complicated issues.  I 
> must admit that I'm not convinced that this is right approach.  OTOH, 
> I don't have the cycles to come up with a better solution so I won't 
> stand in the way of progress.  But I have a few mechanical issues I 
> haven't addressed before.  So I would be grateful if you could post 
> your patch again, possibly in coherent separate posts so that the 
> issues can be addressed individually.  I know its extra work but I 
> really think it is needed here.

Well, one of the most controversial parts is probably the GNUstep.conf 
file, but beside that, the patch simplifies and makes more consistent a 
lot of path handling and searching, so I think it's important in that 
respect. As far as the conf file, I'd like to reduce the dependancies 
on gnustep-make and environment variables for basic things like paths. 
I think it just causes too much confusion for newbie users and in 
general causes problems with various packaging and installation schemes.

I'd be open to any other ideas and modifications, though.


> PS: Maybe we should create a file in CVS tracking deprecated 
> features/behavior to be reviewed after each major release branch is 
> cut.

Yes. Maybe I'll create a ReleaseNotes.gsdoc document for each library...