Re: Gorm source reorganization

[Gregory John Casamento]

Guys,

Thanks for all your input. :)

Unless there are any further concerns, I will go ahead and make the discussed
change to the framework to make it into a library and I will merge the code to
the baseline either tonight (3/29) or tomorrow after I complete some additional
testing to make certain no functionality has been adversely affected by the
refactoring.

Later, GJC
 
--- Nicola Pero <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks :-)
> > > 
> > > We will try to support frameworks on all platforms (well, at least I
> > > will).  That might require quite nasty hacks and things, but should
> > > generally be possible (haven't looked into the Windows case yet though,
> > > but as OpenStep for Windows had it working with some hacks, I suppose we
> > > can do the same).
> > > 
> > > If portability is an issue, I'd certainly recommend using libraries and
> > > bundles only.  So yes, I generally agree with your suggestion of avoiding
> > > frameworks in Gorm and all the core components (eg, gnustep-base,
> > > gnustep-gui etc).
> > > 
> > > But frameworks are quite popular, so we're not going to drop them anytime
> > > soon, and I'll try supporting as many platforms as possible.
> > 
> > It would be cool to support them on Windows, even if it is a hack, there
> are a
> > number of programs which use them (for example ProjectCenter).  Also some
> of
> > the Backbone stuff and a few other apps I can think of.
> 
> Sure ... I don't need convincing ;-) ... frameworks are a normal feature,
> we should support them on Windows as well ... it's my next Windows TODO.  
> :-)
> 
> ... but for the kind of "superior" portability which would be nice to have
> in core packages, maybe if you can do without frameworks in Gorm, that
> would make it more robustly and instantaneously portable. :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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Gregory John Casamento 
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## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.