Re: GNUstep Base OpenStep Compliance

[David Ayers]

Adam Fedor wrote:

> OK, Here, I hope I've made it painfully clear what our goals are 
> (other parts of the mission statement removed for brevity):
>
> <p>Out target implementation for the core libraries is the OpenStep
> standard and its implementation as defined in OPENSTEP 4.2.  Our goal
> is to maintain the implied behavior of the OpenStep specification as
> much as possible and document any deviations from this behavior, in order
> to make it easy to port an Application from OPENSTEP. Our second goal
> is to achieve compatibility with a reference Cocoa implementation 
> (currently
> MacOSX 10.2) as needed to implement code which can be cross-compiled on
> Cocoa, execpt for documented differences which conflict with the overall
> goals of GNUstep (detailed below).
> We will consider changes and additions to our API under the following
> circumstances.</p>
[snip]
Yes, so we are in "violent agreement" (tm) ;-) (Well, at least I'm 
violently agreeing with you.)  I had lost focus in this discussion and 
should have consulted the the proposal before refering to the "Misson 
Statement" and changed my wording to "These points are the *core* 
aspects of the GNUstep Misson for me."  My bad.

> > My suggestion would be to start posting ChangeLog entries (possibly 
> > including patches), so that people have it easier to follow what's 
> > going on.  I've been doing that, but as no one joined in, I guess, 
> > I've been annoying people more than anything else.  Maybe we should 
> > have a seperate patches-
>
> I like it, at least (for non-trivial patches).

Triviality is subjective :-) ... I'll try to make wise decisions, please 
nudge me, if I'm off.

Cheers,
Dave