Oopsy-Doodle. I'll look into what Cocotron and GNUStep have done before actually launching my KickStarter Project.
Just about their very first requirement is to state one's funding goal and time deadline. I just took a wild guess and specified thirty days, and twenty thousand dollars. That might sound like a really high hourly rate for just one month's work, but I would have to work almost 24/7 to pull it off. Mike On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > On Jun 22, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just now I'm about to register a KickStarter project that would > compensate me for completely reverse-engineering the Core Data > formats. > > > I believe that some of the work on this has been done already; Cocotron and > GNUStep both seem to have at least a partial implementation of Core Data. As > I stated before, this still makes me hesitant to use it, since even with a > reverse engineered version of the framework, you still have the same two > problems: > > 1. You don't know if the reverse engineered framework is 100% complete and > covers every single corner case that might arise in a Core Data file, and > > 2. Since the format isn't published, there's no reason that Apple might make > changes to it in the future, including but not limited to features that are > technically in the private, internal specification which haven't been > implemented yet, but which a reader would still need to be able to deal > with. > > Charles > -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
