Re: GNU Objective-C runtime maintainer

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 01:43 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> Would any one mind if I became the maintainer of the GNU Objective-C 
> runtime?
> To me right now there looks like many patches "falling" though the 
> cracks for
> the library.
> Right now there are 7 current bugs in GCC bugzilla filed against the 
> runtime,
> 2 of these have patches which are small and will get approved right 
> away after
> I become maintainer.  My next step as maintainer I will make sure that 
> the runtime
> now gets broken when backend changes for ADJUST_FIELD_ALIGN.
> The next after that will be trying spend some time convincing Apple to 
> be
> able to merge their runtime with GNU's (mostly lawyer crap and some 
> programming
> as GNU objc does not have exceptions yet).
>
> One of my proposes to add exceptions to the GNU runtime would be use 
> the existing
> exception support in GCC as then it can change with the target and 
> maybe be able
> to cross languages (like to C++).

Andrew,

Thanks for discussing you thoughts about the future of the Objective-C 
runtime.  I'd be happy to see someone take a more active role in fixing 
up the runtime.

As you may have seen, I've also sent a letter back to Zem and gcc about 
having a GNUstep developer be co-maintainer as well. I think with this, 
we would have more advanced notice of potential changes and be able to 
comment on them sooner.  Let me know what you think of this.