Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)

[Niels Grewe]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:23:03PM +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2010, at 14:53, David Chisnall wrote:
> > Do we have a list somewhere of what is still to do towards this
> > goal?  I'm not a huge fan of the concept of feature-parity releases,
> > because I'd rather have classes from 10.6 that I do use than classes
> > from 10.4 that I don't use, but if there's a list somewhere of what
> > is still missing / incomplete in terms of compatibility then it
> > would make it easy for people to work on small contributions (and
> > give me something to do when I am bored and unmotivated). 
> 
> I don't think there *is* such a list.
> And actually, base may be as close to 10.5 as 10.4
> Probably we could do with some sort of compatibility table (perhaps on
> the wiki) showing what classes we implement and which of the Apple
> releases they correspond to.

I recall that, for last year's GSOC, somebody proposed writing some tool
to compare the Cocoa and GNUstep header files to find out about our
basic coverage for any given 10.x API. This might be leaning out of the
window a bit, but I think this could probably be done quite easily by
using the frontend parts of clang (perhaps one could even tweak Gorm's
Objective-C header parser for that purpose). Maybe this could still be a
worthwhile task for someone sufficiently motivated…

Cheers,


Niels