Re: Legacy applications and headers

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 08:40 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> > My request is to change these statements into:
> > #ifdef GNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY
> > #include <Foundation/NSArray.h>
> > #include <Foundation/NSException.h>
> > #include <Foundation/NSZone.h>
> > #else
> > #include <Foundation/Foundation.h>
> > #endif
> > It won't change anything in the GNUstep environment, however makes a 
> > bit difference when using this on MacOSX.
>
> I believe the test was intended to insure when GDL2 is build against 
> other OPENSTEP-like Foundation libraries (like libFoundation maybe) 
> that we only wanted to use the precompiled headers for Apple's 
> Foundation, so therefore we need a test against some marker of that 
> particular Foundation.  I was under the impression that 
> NeXT_Foundation_LIBRARY was predefined by the Foundation headers, I 
> guess I was wrong.  Maybe there is another marker we could use?
>
> Now as Skyrix seems to have abandoned libFoundation (and I have no 
> idea if GDL2 would have ever worked with it) we might have a true 
> binary situation (ie. either GNUstep or Cocoa).  So the proposal may 
> be a practical approach.  Yet, I'd like it to be consistent with the 
> -core libraries, so if -core (ie. -baseadd) takes up this convention, 
> -gdl2 and -gsweb can follow.  (And as we include -baseadd headers 
> you'll need the consistency also.)

Seems like a good idea. Since we control the definition of 
GNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY we will always know when it will be used (and the 
other case should work on any system anyway).