Re: GNUstep Base OpenStep Compliance

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 05:06  am, Adam Fedor wrote:

> In case you were sitting on the edge of your chair waiting for this, I 
> went through the base library and checked for OpenStep 'Compliance', 
> e.g. if all the documented OpenStep methods were implemented (not 
> necessarily correctly):

<snip>

> Non-Conforming
> =============
> NSInvocation
>   NS_MESSAGE and NS_INVOCATION not defined

Hmm ... anyone got a fix for those?

> NSObject
>   +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object: missing

Actually, +cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:selector:object: is 
there ... it's in a category of NSObject implemented in NSRunLoop.m

> Not Implemented
> ===============
> NSBTreeBlock
> NSBTreeCursor
> NSByteStore
> NSByteStoreFile

If I remember correctly, the original base library maintainer decided 
not to bother with these because NeXT immediately dropped them from 
OPENSTEP (the rumor at the time being that their implementation was 
buggy, and fixing the bugs just wasn't cost effective) ... so nobody 
actually used them.  I'd rather like to have implementations (for 
completeness) ... but nobody has volunteered and the fact is that in 
practice people with database needs tend to use relational databases 
nowadays,

Frankly, I had completely forgotten about these classes as it's so many 
years since anyone mentioned them - but we ought to document the 
exception to our OpenStep compliance somewhere ... and say we won't be 
implementing the classes (though we would welcome their contribution).