Subject: Re: More Files for Macintosh
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 02:25:44 CST
According to Bryan Prusha <bryanp@wolfram.com>:
> More Files is a package of Macintosh routines which simplifies
> (among other things) conversion of the Macintosh FSSpec (Files System
> Specification) to full pathname and back. They were developed by Jim
> Luther of Apple Developer Technical Support. These are very useful tools
> and I wouldn't think about starting any new Mac development without them.
> They are freely downloadable and the author and "You may incorporate this
> sample code into your applications without restriction". While it isn't
> open under GPL, I don't believe there should be any legal issues with their
> inclusion. As the first task at hand for getting AbiWord to launch on Mac
> is getting the fullpath to the preferences directory, I'd appreciate it if
> these 9 source files and their 11 corresponding headers could be included
> in the cvs repository for the Mac build.
The licence look GPL compatible to me. However, since this is a Mac specific
code, that may evolve independantly, I suggest you make it a separate module
in the CVS tree.
BTW, on the technical part, I began to port it to Carbon, and I'm willing to
provide the patches if you wish.
Hub
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