Re: GCC and Clang

[Po Lu]

Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> writes:

> The way I see it, we have two ways we can go. In each, I have outlined
> what I believe needs to be done.  It may or may not be complete:
>
> LLVM/Clang:
> 1) Improve libobjc2 such that it can 
>    a) function properly on a wider set of platforms.   This means 
>       i) Correct build issues it has in on some environments. 
>       ii) Simplifying the build of it on Windows 
>            (i.e., don't require Visual Studio :))

Before dropping GCC support in GNUstep, could you please consult with
the developers of other GNU software which uses GNUstep?

I put quite some effort into getting the GNUstep port of Emacs into a
presentable state, which I would not have done had it not supported GCC.

There are also many machines that aren't supported by LLVM, which a
Clang-only GNUstep would not be able to run on.

> GCC
> 1) Implement syntactic sugar 
>    a) This includes @[], @{}, and @autorelease as well as
>    b) Various @property directives
>    c) Improvements to the GCC libobjc to support the new syntax
>       i) Implementation of ARC in the runtime

It would be best for someone to work on it, but if nobody does, I think
GNUstep still needs to support GCC, at least for the important libraries
such as gnustep-gui and gnustep-base.

Thanks.