Re: GNUstep roadmap (was Re: [Suggestion] GNUstep-test for quality control)

[Philip Mötteli]

Am 26.10.2003 um 16:01 schrieb Pete French:
> > CFArray therefore is a non OO
> > implementation of an array and it serves as the base for a real
> > NSArray. NSArray is mostly a wrapper for a CFArray.
>
> Is this on OSX ?

Yes.


> I thought that might be how its done -

Actually, as I understood the aim of CF is, to have foundation 
functionality also for other languages. That's at least what I've been 
told from an Apple employee.


> or else
> make CFArray a wrapper for NSArray (which is how I considered doing
> it on GNUstep)

I would do the same in Gnustep.


> > It could be. Depending, on how this kind soul implements it.
>
> :-) I has assumed it was a straight port of the CF source code. An idea
> would be to simply port those bits of the CF source which dont bridge, 
> and then
> make those which do into a wrapper round the existing GNUstep 
> implementations
> of NSArray etc...
>
> So, how *are* you implementing it ?

I try to not use CF. But the Map thing is quite useful. So I made an 
object out of it. Behind it I could also use GS Map.


> > I do agree with that. But I would like to repeat here, that when we 
> > got
> > it into the minds of those programmers, that GS is a viable 
> > possibility
> > to open the Windows and Linux market afterwards, that they would try
> > not to use CF. The few moments, where Cocoa doesn't offer an
>
> You are more optimistic than me in that case! I also think its a catch 
> 22
> situation - that the more special cases the OSX people need to take on 
> board in
> order to use GNUstep, the less likely they are to do so.

Of course. But CF is not so huge. Most of it is covered in Cocoa. So 
for these few cases, I'm optimistic, that we gonna find a solution.

>
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Phil