Re: CF-Lite

[Gregory John Casamento]

I would like to see this happen, if possible.   It would certainly make porting applications from Mac OS X easier if CF (or some subset of it) were available.

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

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From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
To: David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org>
Cc: Discuss-gnustep <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:32:19 PM
Subject: Re: CF-Lite


Am 24.11.2008 um 12:35 schrieb David Chisnall:

> CFLite was released by Apple a few years ago, and is an implementation of the objects used in property lists.  As I recall, it was APSL'd.  It was used in porting Launchd and a few other Apple projects to other systems.
>
> Since the CF* objects are just NS* objects (with some evil hackery in the runtime), it should be pretty trivial to implement a CoreFoundation on top of GNUstep just with some preprocessor macros.  I did hack together some a while ago that would declare an inline function which called the ObjC runtime function for a given selector.  I can try to find them (or rewrite them) if anyone's interested.


This (webkit-)guy:

http://lwat.blogspot.com/2008/11/corefoundation-gone.html

could be interested

(see also http://planet.webkit.org/ )


regards,

    Lars

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> David
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> On 24 Nov 2008, at 08:07, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
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>> This may interest some.
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>> Yen-Ju
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Alexei Svitkine <Alexei.Svitkine@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:24 PM
>> Subject: CF-Lite
>> To: Cocotron Developers <cocotron-dev@googlegroups.com>
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>> So some of the (non-Apple) people hacking on WebKit have been working
>> on a Windows CoreFoundation:
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>> http://lwat.blogspot.com/2008/11/corefoundation-gone.html
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>> There's even a Google Code project:
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>> http://code.google.com/p/cf-lite/
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>> Some of this stuff might be useful to Cocotron, I think.
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