Re: GNUstep Code Freeze

[Niels Grewe]

Am 01.02.2012 10:25, schrieb Fred Kiefer:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> your proposal is definitely cleaner than the current code, which uses
> the extensions as the file type. The problem with this proposal is that
> it will break all document based applications that call these methods. I
> remember adding these methods to get TextEdit to compile, but there I
> also had to change the defined types to get this working. That was less
> work then changing the application to use the old file extension code. I
> would expect the same to be true for other Cocoa applications being
> ported over to GNUstep.
> I would rather leave the current code in there until we get a real
> implementation for it.

Eric wrote an implementation of the UTI system for EtoileFoundation.
Maybe we should consider moving it over to GNUstep after the release?
I'd even be volunteering to do that if nobody objects.

Cheers,

Niels