Re: Please help: My build of gnustep from modules

[Elim Qiu]

Hi David Ayers,
Thanks for the info. I now understand there are many big changes going
on within gnustep from the foundation and up.

I got lots help from Dave Wetzel about gdl2+gsweb. I think his work is
very important and very challenging. 

It makes sense not stick to WO45 and adapt current trend. I see a chance
to improve WO45 now.

Elim

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:25 +0200, David Ayers wrote:
> Hello Elim Qiu,
> 
> Am Montag, den 07.06.2010, 12:14 -0600 schrieb Elim Qiu:
> > This is the result I tried so far to build gnustep from modules (svn
> > anonymous co). Since I tried (ogo/sope) a while ago and used to work
> > with WebObjects4.5.1 ObjC windows. I noticed the installation layout
> > is quite different (System dir with no Frameworks, I don't see
> > Foundation.framework anywhere etc). I just want to confirm what I got is
> > ok... (Please help). I tried hello example in gsweb package and it
> > worked and deployable.
> 
> GDL2 and GSWeb are currently being reworked by Dave Wetzel.
> Unfortunately this work is being done on the trunk and not on a
> development branch.  Also the commits are often not easily reviewable so
> I've only been able to poke at issues here and there.
> 
> The problem with WO45 compatibility is that -base(add) removed some of
> the important infrastructure we needed to hack the runtime to provide
> the WO45 compatibility.  Also the basic API adaption to Cocoa has also
> complicated the issue even more.  Therefor we effectively dropped the
> WO45 compatibility goal and made some major changes in the
> infrastructure to adapt to current -base.  We have a project in the test
> suite that should exercise important parts of the GDL2 API.  I'm not
> sure if D. Wetzel is testing (and adapting it).
> 
> Parallel to that Dave W. wanted to adapt DBModeler to the new API but
> failed due to the underlying infrastructure change and began a fork
> called EOModelEditor which is still a WIP and does not yet support all
> features that DBModeler did (eventhough it support some other features,
> IIRC).
> 
> I guess currently Dave W. is the guy to help you get GSWeb/GDL2 up to
> par for you needs, but be advised that you'll probably need to adapt
> your WO4.5 application to make it work.
> 
> I'd love to point you to "stable" branches but they currently do not
> exist.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
>