Re: GNUstep Google Summer of Code 2008

[Nicolas Roard]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, David Chisnall <csdavec@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2008, at 09:19, Markus Hitter wrote:
>
>  >
>  > Am 19.03.2008 um 08:14 schrieb David Wetzel:
>  >
>  >> Am 19.03.2008 um 01:37 schrieb Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de>:
>  >>> How about an adaptor between CoreData and a real database
>  >>> (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)?
>  >>
>  >> GNUstep has EOF/GDL2, OS X has not, just Java based.
>  >
>  > Not to lower GDL2's value, but for some reason Apple has replaced
>  > EOF with CoreData. My impression is, they drastically reduced the
>  > (exposed) API while retaining everything most programmers need.
>
>  A colleague recently pointed me at a Cocoa developer podcast which
>  complained about CoreData as a horribly broken subset of EOF.  If a
>  CoreData-style wrapper around GDL2 could be written (I don't know
>  either API well enough to know how hard this would be) then it could
>  be very attractive to Cocoa developers (port CoreData apps to GDL2 and
>  get all of the extra shiny EOF features for free) and provide GNUstep
>  with a bit more exposure.

Saso Kiselkov started a gnustep implementation of CoreData:
http://gscoredata.nongnu.org/
but I don't know its current state.

>  I don't know how much Apple are still pushing CoreData - it doesn't do
>  anything nice with spotlight indexing, and the big blob files don't
>  play nicely with File Vault, so I wouldn't be surprised if they
>  quietly stop pushing it soon.

Or improve it... I see CoreData as a first step toward getting rid of
files to get something more akin to NewtonOS soups.

-- 
Nicolas Roard
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