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Re: OT: acid test..
by Richard Dale on Friday 29/Apr/2005, @02:57

"Being that no one gives too shits to the wind about GNUstep or implementing native support for Objective-C and ObjC++ within KDE (Openstep is right there and you do have GNUstep to work with) it amazes me that KDE wants Apple to implement their version of KHTML to KDE's desires. Afterall, GCC 4.1 is supposed to have ObjC++ support."

Well, I care about Objective-C - all my work on bindings was funded by NeXTSTEP/Objective-C contracting.

I spent 6 months working on Qt/KDE bindings for C and Objective-C, but nobody much was interested, and I never quite got the KDE bindings to link properly, although the Qt-only one worked fine. I think it makes more sense to use GNUstep if you like Objective-C, and if you don't like C++ you can program KDE in ruby or python.

Until ObjC++ is part of gcc, it isn't really feasible. I learned that if you have to wrap a C++ api in C, and then once again in Objective-C, the whole thing is just too enormous. Once we can go straight to Objective-C via ObjC++ it will be a different matter. And use the Smoke library via -doesNotRecognizeSelector:, so there would be a lot less glue code with just one entry point from Objective-C to C++. You divert the entire api into a single -doesNotRecognizeSelector call, and do all the possible types of Objective-C <-> C++ marshalling in one place.

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