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Re: GDL2 on MacOS X
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Adam Fedor |
Subject: |
Re: GDL2 on MacOS X |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:21:46 -0700 |
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Stéphane Corthésy wrote:
I have some questions now:
- What is the current state of gdl2?? How compatible is it with EOF 2?
WebObjects 4.5's EOF implementation?
- Do gdl2 developers plan to support MacOS X? If they reply "no", no
need to read remaining questions ;-)
They (we?) should. Although I don't think any of the main developers use
MacOSX so we would rely on patches and bug reports from others.
I don't think your patch will work though, since you need the garbage
collecting classes for gdl2. We're working on a compatibility library
that you could compile on MacOSX to get this to work.
- Does it even compile on a GNUStep system?? I had to correct some code,
independant of platform.
Well, understand that it's not even a released version yet, it's just in
CVS.
- gdl2 depends on GNUStep-specific classes, like GCArray, etc. Can this
dependency be removed? There are also references to methods not
implemented in MacOS X, like subclassResponsibility:, but in these cases
we could implement categories on MacOS X for GNUStep compatibility.
see above.
- gdl2 is not consistent regarding retain/release and garbage
collecting; sometimes macros are used for retain/release, sometimes
method calls are used. How should it be done?
macros should be used, since it's possible to compile GNUstep with
automatic garbage collection, so that retain/releases aren't even needed.
Finally, I suppose there are a lot of Cocoa developers willing to use
EOF... erh gdl2 ;-)
I suppose GNUStep people will find help among them. There are also a lot
of former OpenStep/WO4 developers that could help, now that there is a
concrete opensource EOF for Cocoa. So please, subscribe to that list,
checkout gdl2 and give GNUStep developers needed help. I'll try to.
Yes. Thanks!
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