CoreBase and -base

[David Chisnall]

Hi Everyone,

There was some discussion a while ago about moving CoreBase into -base, but I 
don't recall any final decision.  I'm currently looking at implementing 
CFBundle.  Doing this in a separate framework is pretty easy if you don't need 
to support any platforms where dlfcn.h doesn't exist[1], but ideally it should 
use the same abstraction layer that NSBundle uses.  It can't be implemented in 
terms of NSBundle, however, since it is a lower level class.  Ideally, either 
NSBundle should be refactored to use CFBundle, or they should both share some 
common code - at the very least, CFBundle should probably use the library 
loading abstraction code in -base, which is not currently possible.

David

[1] Do we anymore?  I think MinGW provides wrappers around these now, and the 
only other implementations we have seem to be for ancient platforms that 
probably no longer work anyway.

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