Re: Upcoming releases

[David Ayers]

Nicola Pero wrote:

> > I hope to make the next unstable release(s) of the core libraries, 
> > probably starting Tuesday night.
> >    
> Let us know when it would be the right time to make the header
> installation dir updates.
>
> It seems it would be the last major filesystem layout change, so I'd like
> to get that in soon and then we can keep the filesystem layout we have
> unchanged forever :-)
>  
I'm still ready to do the work, but Tuesday is a bit tight for me.  
Besides, we still have to decide on whether we want to install our 
libraries at top level or in a gnustep specific subdirectory.

Theoretically we could:
- keep installing them in a gnustep subdirectory
- keep the -Ixxx/gnustep
- make sure that the names in the gnustep subdir are still rather unique 
(i.e. base->GNUstepBase)
- switch from <gnustep/base/GSFile.h> to <GNUstepBase/GSFile.h>

This would stop pollution of the toplevel include for users of -make but 
allow for custom frameworks in custom build systems.  It would not 
remove the extra -I flag.  It would not save us from the GNUstep-prefix 
of the header directories.  I personally think it's rather ugly, but 
it's the only compromise I've come up with.

On the otherhand, I see nothing wrong in making -make a prerequisite of 
the GNUstep libraries, and not worry about building them as frameworks.  
That way we keep all <gnustep/base/GSFiles.h> and just insure that the 
GSFiles are installed in the correct directory.

I don't think we should necessarily rush this, and I really think it 
would be a bad idea if we do a partial change now and another in a 
following release (even if it were another unstable release).  So if 
Tuesday is important to hold, I'd rather keep it as it is for now.

Cheers,
David