Re: Re[2]: EOKeyValueCoding

[Helge Hess]

On Sonntag, Februar 24, 2002, at 06:38  Uhr, Manuel Guesdon wrote:
> In Apple stuff, KVC are in EOF which is, AFAIK, only delivered as a 
> part of WebObjects.

No. KVC is part of Apple Foundation for quite some time now. So no need 
to link GDL just for KVC ...

> Putting KVC stuff in EOF force people to link with gdl2 just for KVC.

KVC belongs into Foundation now (like NSClassDescription and NSNull)

> Putting KVC stuff in base means that people wanted to use gsweb and 
> gdl2 with other foundations libraries can't (or need
> to re-implement KVC)

This isn't an issue any more. We should place a KVC implementation in 
FoundationExt if we want to support deprecated OS's like OPENSTEP.
Indeed because KVC is part of Foundation it's much easier now, since you 
don't need to maintain runtime specific code in GDL :-)

> Putting KVC stuff in a distinct library (in which we could also put 
> NSString GNUstep additions and so on) allow this.

We already have this library, FoundationExt/extensions, and with GNUstep 
back in 1998-something it was well maintained, because Ovidiu did port 
gstep-gui to several different Foundations. Personally I find it very 
unfortunate that the parts of GNUstep became so tightly coupled.

I think at FOSDEM we discussed the stuff shortly. If I understood 
Richard correct, he would like to create a stripped down gstep-base on 
other platforms, which IMHO is a nice idea. That is, if you have a 
library combo other than *-gnu-*, gstep-base is compiled without 
NSArray, NSString, etc, but only the GNUstep additions. You still link 
with gstep-base, but get no clashes with libFoundation, 
Foundation.framework or whatever :-)

Greetings
  Helge