Re: Should we split the project into two branches?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Max Chan wrote:
> To be honest ARC is less of a concern for me right now - GCC can gain that 
> (and the syntactic sugars) very easily as long as GCC folks can pick up their 
> s#!t. The big feature of concern IMO is Swift, which does not have any GCC 
> frontend and likely uses a different ABI as what we are using.

Not as far as I know, but without a public available swift
implementation on par with Apple's that can try with GNUstep it is
difficult to tell

>
> Our core library IMO is 10.6.8 + backports + an entirely twisted library 
> layering in dire need of refactor, especially if we want to bring in Swift 
> support. The biggest refactor project we need to undertake IMO is actually 
> layering our CoreFoundation beneath Foundation instead of on top of it, as 
> that is also a dependency of Swift Standard Library.
No, we don't need that. Your opinion.

Riccardo