Re: GNUstep Google Summer of Code 2008

[o Kiselkov <address@hidden>]

Nicolas Roard wrote:
> 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.
> 

The state is that a lot of code was written, but there are still a lot
of things that need finishing.

--
Saso