Notes from GNUstep meeting 15 February 2022 --
- No plans to deprecate GCC
- Add features from ObjC2 to GCC — Need buy in from GCC devs
- A first step could be to toggle the use of libobjc2 structure generation, before trying to upgrade GCC-libobjc
- Port libobjc2 to other architecture and make sure to stabilize on other platforms.
- Riccardo can help testing
- Fred to look into cooperation with David C. to bring in new features / changes to libobjc2
- Possibly create alternate build system (aside from cmake)
- Autoconf / Make build system available in parallel
- Ensure new versions of clang build objc code properly
- Add test suites to verify that a given version of clang works/builds.
- What are we planning to improve within GNUstep core libraries…
- Experimentally try things that might help make things better. (?)
- Weak pointers for delegates (?)
- Unreasonable expectations about what clang will actually do.
- Need more debugging and testing
- Younger developers struggle with using a limited subset of ObjC2 (objc “1”)
- Clang packages
- Education — Make developers aware of where the compiler ends and GNUstep starts (distinction between)
- Documentation of available methods and classes depending on language version. (Autogsdoc?)
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