Re: PATCH: NSPathUtilities etc

[David Ayers]

Sheldon Gill wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:04, Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 04:58 AM, David Ayers wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
> If you have concerns, please let us know. You might highlight something that 
> has been missed.
>
> What are the "mechanical issues" you need to address?

I only had a quick scan, but IIRC the patch (conditionally) installed 
headers (made them public) that should very likely remain private.  I'll 
check the archives again, it you can't post the revised version.

> I will post the patch, updated to incorporate comments.  I'm not sure I can 
> achieve separate posts for all issues because of the inter-dependencies but I 
> will look into what can be done to separate issues cleanly.
>
> The issues or questions raised so far:
>
> 1) To conf or not to conf
> 2) Temporary directory and temporary files
> 3) Win32 temporary path discovery mechanism
> 4) Win32 Registry usage
> 5) How and where compile-time definitions are created
> 6) GNUstep-make dependencies
> 7) GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/.GNUsteprc usage

I'm note sure, but I had the feeling the LD_LIBRARY_PATH mechanism (wrt. 
configuring and installing multiple GNUstep hierarchies with different 
--prefix) would break.  I may be wrong though.  I'll really try to find 
some time to look at in the next few days.  I was just hoping I could do 
it in smaller packages.

Cheers,
David