Re: Bigger change to NSView

[Adam Fedor]

On Saturday, February 28, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> As this is a big step, I don't want to do it for the upcoming release, 
> but rather for the 0.9.3 release. Given that backward compatibility 
> gets broken anyway, we could think about making a few deeper changes 
> in other places as well. For NSView we could merge all the boolean 
> ivars into a bit structure, I don't think that this is really needed, 
> still if we want to do it, we should do it now. Another place high up 
> in the class hierarchy that springs to my mind as needing a few more 
> ivars is NSCell. It would be great, if we could do as much of such 
> deep changes in one go, to save the trouble of recompilations for all 
> the other releases.
Yes, that's good. perhaps even put in a few _reserved ivars as well, 
just for good measure. It really only needs to be solid by a 1.0 
release.

I hope to start making releases tonight, although I don't know how far 
I'll get.