Laurent Sansonetti
lsans****@apple*****
Thu Jun 29 21:39:45 JST 2006
Hi Kimura-san, all, On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:47 PM, kimura wataru wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:30:32 +0200, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: >> Hi Kimura-san, >> > >>> == tasks >>> >>> * make a new branch, from CVS HEAD >>> * import some stable features from apple-unstable branch (if i can) >>> * retained flag >>> * class hierarchy >>> * map of Ruby object <=> ObjC object >>> * pass by ref >>> >> >> Just one thing, I would not suggest to release the pass by ref >> support right now. I am currently discussing with the PyObjC guys >> about the XML files we generate and they would like to use them too, >> but with more information inside. So I am working on a new format >> etc... I should have finished in a couple of days, if you can wait >> this would be cool. >> > I see. > > btw, I think that packaging the XML files into RubyCocoa.framework > brings more portability for the framework. > > * RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/BridgeSupport - default (AppKit, > Foundation) > * /Library/BridgeSupport, ... - for other frameworks > > If other objc bridges (such as PyObjC) will use the same files, to > place > the XML files outside of the framework may be better. I just finished the new XML format, however I don't have time right now to integrate the changes in RubyCocoa, I should have more time in 2 weeks. Also, the new XML format adds more description about these pointers arguments, like: can nil be given? in case it's an object, who owns it? is it a C-array argument, if yes how is it delimited? etc... The complexity of the new format makes it a bit hard to read a runtime. I think it will be better to parse the files at build time and generate code, as we already do with functions/constants. Laurent
