Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Reorganization proposal

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 31-mei-04, at 21:27, b.bum wrote:

> On May 31, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Now that we can reasonably move stuff around in the repository, I 
>> think it's time to reorganize some stuff.
>>
>> Examples:
>> I propose that we follow something very close to Apple's 
>> /Developer/Examples hierarchy.  The current situation is just 
>> confusing.  We also need to start using branches for examples that 
>> don't work yet (and move the currently non-working ones away 
>> quickly).
>
> +1

That's fine by me, the current structure is a mess.

>
>> Templates:
>> Templates should be stored in the repository in the openable-by-xcode 
>> format.  It should be up to the distribution scripts to turn them 
>> into something usable as a template.  This just makes them much 
>> easier to maintain.
>
> +1
>
> The clean.py should also be renamed and will need to be modified a 
> bit.  In particular, it needs to be aware of what files are to be 
> renamed as a part of project-from-template.  Once that is in place, we 
> should be able to create Xcode templates like the Project Builder 
> PyObjC template that doesn't use "MyDocument" as the document name.
>
> Note that the NIB files in the template need to be saved in 10.2 
> text-only format as it is required to do template substitions in the 
> NIB file (to replace MyDocument with a more useful name).

The templates should also be moved one level down, I don't like having 
both Xcode and Project Builder Extras on the toplevel.

And while we're at it:

- the code-generation scripts should be moved into Lib and restructured 
to make it easier to reuse them.

- setup.py should install pyobjc-api.h, to make it possible to create 
wrapper packages seperately from PyObjC (also add functions to _objc 
that make it unnecessary to create/generate C code for simple cases, 
see list archive for details)

- move Scripts/runPyObjCTests into a module (objc.test.__init__?) and 
add a test action to setup.py.

- setup.py is getting way to large, try to move functionality into 
seperate modules (maybe in Setup-Lib).

Longer term actions:

- Fix GNUstep

- Make it possible to redefine classes (in a limited form, basically to 
make it possible to reload() modules)

- Somehow make selectors do the right thing (TM) w.r.t. class and 
instance methods, see bug #836247

Ronald

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