Re: NSStream and friends + NSPredicate, NSExpression and others

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 3 Feb 2006, at 21:24, hns@computer.org wrote:

> hns@computer.org schrieb:
>
> > I am currently also working on that in my efforts to make mySTEP more
> > compatible to the 10.4 documentation of Foundation.framework.
> >
> > I hope that I have this (together with the recently mentioned
> > NSPredicate/NSExpression code) ready for publication within 4 weeks,
> > i.e. FOSDEM. It already compiles without warnings - but I have not  
> > yet
> > implemented everyhing and not tested.
>
> I have copied a snapshot (sneak preview) on my server so that you can
> already have a look at it.
>
> http://www.quantum-step.com/download/mySTEP-src.tgz
>
> New things in Foundation which could be of interest for GNUstep
> integration:
> * Foundation headers completely reviewed and should be 99.9%  
> compatible
> * NSStream & Friends (incl. NSSocketStream)
> * NSRunLoop simplified since only NSStream is left over to use  
> watchers
> * NSFileHandle reworked to be based on NSStream
> * NSPort, NSPortMessage, NSConnection reworked to be based on NSStream

I'm very interested in that, as I've been wanting to restructure to  
get all the I/O code using a single underlying API for a few years  
now, but never had the time to do it.  Of course, it *must* work on  
mingw32 (ie native windows API) and be extremely stable/reliable if  
we want to put it into GNUstep base.
Does this complement Derek Zhou's work on NSStream?  Are you planning  
to get together on it?

> * NSNetServices

I haven't looked into this at all ... what's the functionality?

> * NSIndexPath

Do you have keyed archiving interoperable with MacOS-X for this  
class?  I'd be interested in that because I don't think the keyed  
archive representations of an NSIndexPath in macos and gnustep are  
properly compatible yet.

> * NSHTTP* and NSURL* headers and some implementations

Do you mean just the basic classes as in GNUstep, or all the newer  
supporting classes added to MacOS-X more recently when they rewrote  
the http/url code?

> Please note that this all is neither complete nor tested - Foundation
> just (cross-)compiles without errors and a limited number of warnings
> on Xcode. AppKit even does not compile properly.
>
> And, it is not directly compatible to the GNUstep source code
> architecture and needs porting/integration work since my basis is an
> older side-stream of GNUstep and not the most recent status.

:-(