Re: Core Foundation support?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-06-22 21:32:52 +0100 Sam Lauber <sam124@operamail.com> wrote:

> It says in the GNUstep developer FAQ that Core Foundation should not be 
> used. 
>   Would it be a good idea for me to make a free implementation?
>
> Samuel Lauber
>
> P.S. Please reply to me, I am having problems with the list.

Last time I recall this being discussed, there was a strong consensus that 
Core Foundation was a bad API ... and that a proper object oriented language 
is the way to go to write good code... so we really, really did not want to 
rewrite gnustep core libraries in terms of a lower level Core Foundation C 
library, expending a lot of effort and making the base library less 
efficient and less maintanable.

A key feature of Core Foundation is then 'toll free bridging' to Cocoa 
objects ... and it's hard to see how you can get that for GNUstep without an 
intimate relationship between Core Foundation and the GNUstep base library.

However, that does not mean we are against it in principle (well, I'm not 
against it ... I'm not completely sure the issue came up in generla 
discussion) ... if the Core Foundation stuff was implemented as a C wrapper 
round the GNUstep base library, it would make it easier to port MacOS-X 
application which use Core Foundation to GNUstep.  Whether that's a goal 
that's worth your time and energy is youre judgment call.