[pyobjc] portability and clean starts (was:NSAutorelease support)
Steven D. Majewski
sdm7g at virginia.edu
Wed Nov 8 19:51:00 EST 2000
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
> AFAIK, Carbon on MacOS does not include ObjC-- so, no point in going to the
> relatively primitive CoreFoundation API because it won't gain portability to
> that environment and it will greatly impede portability to GnuStep/OpenStep....
My point is that portability w.r.t. GnuStep/OpenStep/NextStep/Cocoa/...
is a different dimension than portability for
Darwin(including Darwin on Intel)/MacOSX/ClassicMac+CarbonLib.
There *MAY* be portability advantages (in that second dimension) to
using the lower level and common (among that family) interfaces:
more code to initially write, but less total code to support all
of those system.
Supporting all the *Step flavors probably means more work, and it
becomes prohibitive if there aren't enough users, testers and
maintainers. ( Isn't this why PyObjC was dropped from the Python
core distribution ? If there are a lot of Python + GnuStep users
lurking out there, please speak up! )
The main advantage of a clean start would seem to be to make a
clean start and get rid of a lot of untested #ifdef's .
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