Re: [swarm-hackers] header directory structure

[Bill Northcott]

On 07/07/2008, at 10:03 AM, Scott Christley wrote:
> Even if do get subdirectories under the framework, applications  
> still need to specify the framework name at the start.  The only way  
> I know to get around this would be hack the include header paths to  
> not require the framework name, but then that would need to be done  
> by every Swarm application on OSX, which is no good.
>
> #import <Swarm/defobj/DefObject.h>
>
> and yes, I'm talking about the Apple build machinery, building Swarm  
> applications with Apple development tools, Apple runtime, Apple  
> compiler, etc.

I would be very unhappy about this.  I think one needs some  
extraordinarily compelling reason to make a change that would break  
almost every file of existing Swarm library and model source code.

I would have thought that Swarm sources should be portable across  
systems with only minor mods.  If someone want to build a Cocoa/Appkit  
GUI or embed a Swarm model in some larger Cocoa edifice.  That is  
cool, but it still does not require the model (system portable) bit to  
be built using Apple build machinery.

Bill