Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Adam Fedor]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Matt Rice wrote:

> anyhow i guess i will come up with a patch to use a gnustep-config  
> which gets its information from
> GNUstep.conf and we can argue over that...
> (in other words reimplement pkg-config for GNUstep)
> I just don't think we should disregard existing tools/processes  
> lightly.

Sure that's true, but remember that these tools are all for non- 
standard systems.  Whenever I think about a change to the GNUstep  
system, I think first about how it will affect the standard, and I  
mean "ideal"  system, that we are working towards (e.g. one with a  
nice working ProjectCenter, etc). Neither GNustep.conf nor  
PKG_CONFIG_PATH  would really be needed in the standard installation.  
Developers always want to do something unusual, so we should make it  
POSSIBLE for them to do whatever they want, but it's not required to  
make it easy for them to do it.