[foo-devel] another time cvs messages

[martin r. <fo...@ru...>]

dear foo developers,

i have to apologize for the mess i am causing to the listen/foo cvs
repository...  but i think it's the only way for now, since we have
different codebases by now which should still remain independent.

i added a new directory 'ng' for "next generation" (which has nothing
to do with "NeXT generation", n.b.).  i hope this could get the
candidate for the initial checkin for the sourceforge cvs and the mac
os x version of foo.  until now, i already reviewed the Core code
(Modules and Interface still to come...)

i expect the most work for the interface since that is the sensible
thing regarding the Objective-C runtime.  another issue still not
solved for the new version is serialization.


COSMETIC CHANGES:
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* prepend our "officially registered" prefix FOO to each file and each
class
* prepend an LGPL header to each file

* review coding style for better readability

i oriented at the coding style for GNUstep itself:

* more spaces in objc code, declarations:
- (FOOBuffer *) initWithSize: (unsigned int)samples;

calls:
  [self fillCacheFromFrame: fromFrame frames: frames];

(in short terms, a space after each colon)


SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES
-------------------

* derive FOOObject from NSObject (instead of Object).  this had many,
many implications all over the code, regarding memory management stuff
etc.

* use static typing whereever possible (e. g. FOOBuffer * instead of
id).  this leads to some oddities and warnings while compiling.  i am
not quite sure about how ot proceed.  Objective-C also knows so called
"protocols", something like interface definitions.  perhaps using them
would be a smart solution.

* use NSString instead of char * for filenames etc.


NOT YET SOLVED
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* serialization (has to be done the OpenStep way now)


bests,

martin