Re: Cocotron

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 29.12.2006 um 16:36 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:

> I believe that renaming is a good idea.  It would make it clearer  
> what's what.   We'll need, of course, to do it when we have a  
> release which breaks backwards compatibility.

How about keeping symlinks for the existing stuff being created to  
ensure that?

> Later, GJC

regards, Lars

> --
> Gregory Casamento
> ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk>
> To: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
> Cc: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>;  
> "hns@computer.org" <hns@computer.org>; discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 3:05:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Cocotron
>
>
> On 29 Dec 2006, at 01:37, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>
> > Am 28.12.2006 um 17:37 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:
> >
> > > Nikolaus,
> > >
> > > They would be wrong.   GNUstep not an OS.
> >
> > They might be wrong, but it's not their fault. If we want people to
> > get it right we'll have to explain it to them in a catchy way -
> > even if that might include to rename gnustep-base to gnustep-
> > foundation and gnustep-gui to gnustep-appkit.
>
> I actually have no problem at all with the idea of renaming ... in
> fact, for compatibility it might be nice if we could build them so
> that they could be used both as libraries and frameworks at the same
> time, so that cocoa developers could link to them the same way they
> do on macos.  I don't know how to modify makefiles etc to build them
> that way, but it can't really be all that hard.
>
>
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