Re: GNUstep Base OpenStep Compliance

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 11:01  am, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 04:33 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> <snip>
> > So, to try to clarify again ...
> > We should Implement the OpenStep API in the core libraries.
>
> Sorry if I am confused, does that mean you want to remove the 
> non-OpenStep stuff from core? I don't think this is what you are 
> proposing, no?

You are right ... I just mean we should be *SURE* we have the OpenStep 
API implemented as our first priority. Not that we should reject 
additions.

> > We should use MacOS-X as a library test reference platform,
> > We should implement NeXTstep look  and feel applications on top of it.
>
> Exactly, it is important to make the distinction between the NEXTSTEP 
> look and feel and the Cocoa/Mac OS X test reference platform. I think 
> - to rephrase what you are saying - what we want is a set of libraries 
> which implements OpenStep but we add compatibility with Cocoa where it 
> makes sense, while we keep using the superior look and feel of 
> NEXTSTEP. At least this is my understanding of it :-)

Yep.