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Re: gstep-make 1.2.0


From: Dennis Leeuw
Subject: Re: gstep-make 1.2.0
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:40:37 +0100

Nicola Pero wrote:

> (talking about Additional makefiles ... helge is proposing that instead of
> loading all the different library-combo additional makefiles each time
> (and having each of them protected by a ifeq() for the appropriate combo
> having been selected) we put them into subdirs, and gnustep-make will only
> load the relevant ones basing on the library combo ... the library-combo
> makefiles need not be any longer protected).
>
> > What, if we would source the proper stuff by combo name ?
> >
> > Eg:
> >   Makefiles
> >     runtimes
> >       gnu.make
> >       co.make
> >       nx.make
> >     foundations
> >       fd.make
> >       gnu.make
> >       co.make
> >       nx.make
> >     guis
> >       gnu.make
> >
> > The makefiles itself shouldn't have *any* specific flags anymore, but
> > only do
> >
> > include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/foundations/$(FOUNDATION_LIB).make
> >
> > This would be really flexible, but I'm not sure whether it would hurt
> > performance ?
>
> No problem with performance - it's pretty tempting ... :-)
>
> We would still include all additional makefiles on the top level dir, but
> library-combos makefiles would go into the subdirs ... much cleaner ...
> yes quite pretty.
>
> Anyone having any points against this suggestion ?
>
> Helge is also proposing that we add a new library-combo element, `co', for
> cocoa ... and use it for cocoa code instead of nx ...  so we would have
> the library-combo co-co-co ... I'd like to always use long names and never
> acronyms because we want a user friendly system :-) so I'd call it
> cocoa-cocoa-cocoa or better apple-apple-apple.

Is there still a meaning to gnu-gnu-gnu, if so the I suggest:
apple-cocoa-cocoa
Otherwise we might as well just use "gnu" and thus also "cocoa"

BTW brilliant idea to build a tree within the makefile directory. Great that
makes it definitly better.

Dennis



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