Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r30407 - in /libs/gui/trunk: ChangeLog Source/NSApplication.m

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred,

Greg discussed this changed with me. We conducted tests on Mac, he also 
tested on OpenStep. We consulted Apple's documentation.
> I believe this change does the wrong thing. If I understand correctly
> what your code is trying to do, it loops over all the arguments to the
> process, ignoring the ones that start with a "-", which most likely are
> command switches, gathers them all up and then tries to open then.
>
> This sounds fine until you realize that GNUstep gui already had some
> command line argument processing. For example, we allow for files to get
> printed and this wont be possible any more with your code.
> The just open them all approach may improve things for people doing
> simple things, but breaks stuff for everybody who knows about this
> special features of GNUstep.
>
>    
While we preserve the options like -NSPath, the concept is to iterate up 
to the first argument starting with "-", which is considered an option. 
The filenames found up to that points are passed to the application.

This way "openapp" behaves sensibly too.

Riccardo