Re: Bigger change to NSView

[Gregory John Casamento]

Fred,

--- Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Some days ago I hacked in some new Cocoa methods to NSView (e.g. 
> isHidden). To fully support the functionality here, we need another ivar 
> to store the value for this. As you know, this change will require, to 
> recompile all libraries and applications using local subclasses of 
> NSView. Which will result in almost everything needing a recompile.
> 
> As this is a big step, I don't want to do it for the upcoming release, 
> but rather for the 0.9.3 release. Given that backward compatibility gets 
> broken anyway, we could think about making a few deeper changes in other 
> places as well. 

<the rest.. snipped>

Please be certain that backwards compatibility will not be broken as it
pertains to unarchiving .gorm files with classes that depend on NSView.   This
should be done in a way that allows .gorm files created prior to the change to
load without issue.  

This is in the coding standards for GNUstep. :)

GJC

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Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.

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