Re: NSPathUtilities Patch - 5 - NSPathUtilities.m

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Sheldon Gill wrote:

> This is the new module which features:
>
> Simpler and cleaner code. More functionality in fewer lines 
> incorporating some
> fixes. More documentation.
>
> Support for configuration file to define GNUstep directory structure. 
> Removes
> requirement to source GNUstep.sh so -base no longer depends on -make 
> being
> installed. If no configuration file is found and environment variables 
> aren't
> defined the base paths are set to compile time defaults. Location of
> configuration file is set by a single #define line so can be easily 
> changed.

IIRC, some people were not in favor of setting 
GNUSTEP_CONFIGURATION_FILE to
the fixed path /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf.  Did you reached some 
agreement with
them?

> Provision for "Platform Support" which causes
> NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to return additional paths for
> different platforms. This makes it easier to find applications or other
> resources.

If the order of search paths has been "corrected", that is likely to break
other places in both GNUstep and third-parties' applications, where that
function is called.  Perhaps, that is a right thing to do.  Nonetheless, I
strongly feel you should state this fact more loudly and consult with those
who are in charge of version control on making a transition period for that.
No one is pleased with this sort of change without any warning.

Why didn't you pay any attention to backwards compatibility at all?

Regards,
- Kazunobu Kuriyama