Re: PATCH: suppress deprecation warnings on OS X Leopard

[Tim McIntosh]

On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> The right fix still seems to be to update the Apple runtime code in  
> gnustep-base to work with the new runtime if available, but in the  
> meanwhile
> if we add the -Wno-deprecated flag, we should probably add it inside  
> gnustep-base so that when support for the new runtime is available, we
> can remove it in sync. :-)


It's been a few months, so I'm starting to forget everything, but  
IIRC, I did a small bit of work in this area when creating the  
GNUstepWeb packages for Mac OS X:

        http://hoth.radiofreeomaha.net:3000/~tmcintos/GNUstepWeb/

I believe I was also trying to reorganize some code to eliminate the  
need to include GSObjCRuntime.h in GSCategories.h and minimize the  
inclusion of GSObjCRuntime.h in general outside of -base.  I was  
planning to go back and sort all of this out when I found some time-- 
reviewing everything, eliminating unnecessary changes, and breaking  
the remaining changes down into smaller patches that I could submit  
for consideration--but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

GNUstep seems to do a lot of mucking with the runtime structures that  
are no longer visible with Obj-C 2.0, so I think the changes I made  
were just barely scratching the surface in view of what is actually  
needed.  Not being familiar enough with the GNUstep code base, I have  
to wonder if all of the direct use of the runtime APIs is really  
needed;  I can see where it would be necessary on occasion within - 
base, but I was surprised by the number of times I saw it being used  
in higher-level frameworks.

-Tim