Re: Cocotron

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> 
> 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.

I think it would be great if -base/-gui could be compiled as
NATIVE_LIBRARY.  I once took a shot at it, but the BaseAdditions part
wrt apple-apple-apple made it very messy.  I'm not sure if it could be
split due to the interdependencies.

Cheers,
David