Re: Framework support for darwin

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:-

> On Wednesday, Aug 6, 2003, at 17:51 Pacific/Auckland, Neil Booth wrote:
> 
> >Whatever we decide I think most of the changes that are in c-incpath.c
> >should be in darwin.c.
> 
> Frameworks arn't a fundamentally darwin-specific concept. They're a 
> great way to clean up the filesystem by grouping headers together with 
> their associated libraries. There's no reason why, say, a linux 
> distribution couldn't adopt them (apart from inertia). Why preclude 
> others from making use of this feature by putting it in a 
> Darwin-specific file?

We don't.

However, until others come up with their plans, there is no way to know
how frameworks should be generically specified (i.e. minimally).  Until
another target comes forward with a proposal of how they intend to
do it, the facility should remain target-specific.  When someone else
steps forward, we can consider the best way to make the facility a
common one.

Neil.