Scott Thompson
easco****@mac*****
Sat Apr 12 11:55:17 JST 2008
Now that I've taken a good look at require_framework, I wanted to suggest some changes to the mechanism that I think would be beneficial. Not having been involved with the initial design of the code, however, I don't know what's an intentional feature of the library, and what might just be casual functionality. If these ideas would adversely affect something that was intentionally designed into the framework, please tell me to go jump in a lake :-) I would be more than happy to participate in the Open Source nature of this project, and change the code myself, then submit it through the process. I wanted to discuss those changes here first before embarking on the coding effort. 1) The first feature suggestion I would make is to have require_framework take advantage of the Cocoa mechanisms for finding resources in the different file domains, rather than using hard-coded paths. By that I mean, it should take advantage of NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains. 2) The second feature suggestion, related to the first, is to change require_framework so that it searches the Framework directories in the order that Apple suggests in the "Searching Within the File-System Domains" section of the File System Overview documentation: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/Domains.html > (This change is potentially dangerous as there may be existing RubyCocoa applications that depend on the search order as it currently exists.) 3) The third feature suggestion would be to automatically load the subframeworks of umbrella frameworks. This would also allow the shortcuts to popular frameworks to go away and would allow the umbrella frameworks to function as they were intended. My goal is to bring the framework loading for RubyCocoa more in line with the spirit of the Cocoa frameworks. The hope being that Cocoa developers will find that behavior more predictable. Are any of these changes of interest to the RubyCocoa community? Scott -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...Descargar
