Re: Fwd: autozone (Apple's Cocoa garbage collector) code opensourced

[Gregory John Casamento]

One problem here is that it's not compatible with the GPLv2.   GNUstep is LGPLv2 or later.  I'm wondering if this presents a problem for us. :/   I'm not sure if it does.

Any thoughts?

If not it would be nice to see if we could get this working with GNUstep, but it's not something that we don't already have. There's a garbage collector which is written in C called boehm-gc and GNUstep already has the changes incorporated to use it.

Thanks, GC
Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer

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From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
To: GNUstep Discuss <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 2:31:04 PM
Subject: Fwd: autozone (Apple's Cocoa garbage collector) code opensourced

Some of you might be interested in this. AutoZone is Apple's  garbage 
collector for Cocoa:

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Von: "Sean McBride" <cwatson@cam.org>
> Datum: 15. November 2008 01:44:06 MEZ
> An: <objc-language@lists.apple.com>
> Betreff: autozone code opensourced
>
> Since no one from Apple is mentioning it.... from the darwindev list:
>
> -------
> The Darwin Team is pleased to announce the release of the autozone
> project for Mac OS X 10.5.5.  This is the project which provides
> libauto.dylib. The source is available at the usual location:
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/autozone-77.1/
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/
> autozone-77.1.tar.gz
> -------
>
> I browsed the source quickly in hopes of finding some debugging
> goodies.  There are some calls to getenv() to conditionally enable
> debugging features, but it's mostly in an '#if defined(DEBUG)'.  Do I
> assume correctly that the shipping version does not have this defined?
> What's the easiest way for me to get these enabled?  I'm especially
> interested in AUTO_USE_GUARDS, if it does what I'm guessing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
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