Re: GNUstep Base OpenStep Compliance

[Helge Hess]

Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > Partly because Cocoa isn't really a changing API ;-) If that would be
> > the case, Apple would have a huge problems having to support thousands
> > of developers and multimillions of lines of code.
>
> Cocoa *is* a changing API.

If you say so ...

> There's stuff going on behind the scenes to
> keep runtime compatibility (checking the version that program X was
> compiled with, and using behavior consistent with that version of the
> API), but they give no indications that you will have continued source
> compatibility.

Well, we were not required to update our sources (~500.000 LOC) when 
going from 10.0 to 10.1 or from 10.1 to 10.2. It was always perfectly 
source compatible.

> Many people had to change their programs between 10.1 and
> 10.2, but a program compiled on 10.1 would generally continue to work on
> 10.2. This is in part caused by the _way_ Apple are changing Cocoa.

Really ? Which people and what did they need to change ?

regards,
  Helge
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