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


From: Richard Frith-Macdonald
Subject: Re: autozone (Apple's Cocoa garbage collector) code opensourced
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:46:05 +0000


On 16 Nov 2008, at 20:25, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

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.

The problem with the existing GC is ... it was never fully integrated, nobody (afaik) has ever really used it, so it has certainly bit-rotted to the point where it no longer works, and it's not compatible with the Apple garbage collection.

This means we really need someone to volunteer to update/fix the existing code and make it reasonably Apple compatible, or an apple compatible implementation. Please!!

As long as using GC is only an option and we don't depend on it, we are probably OK to use Apple's code to offer a GC implementation.. not sure though.




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