On 31 Jul., 21:32, Jason Hanneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, I am new to discussion lists and how they work. I think > this question has probably come up before so I apologize ahead of time > for asking. My question is: Does anyone know if there are plans to > bring Objective-C 2.0 to GNU ? If so, is there information on this > topic somewhere? I was just wondering how far this is coming along if > there are plans for it. > > Thanks! > Jason
Yes, there are plans but AFAIK no stable results. Basically, ObjC-2.0 (as a language) should/will become part of gcc-4.?. And it needs some additional runtime support. After that, we can start to use the new features in GNUstep (standard libraries) and applications. But - such a step has to be done carefully since we would require all users to upgrade to a specific version of gcc. This will reduce options for older systems. GNUstep still compiles and works with gcc 2.95.3. Therefore, there is also a different approach: a preprocessor which translates objc-2.0 to objc-1.0. But because of lack of interest (and experience), there isn't much progress so far and we have not tested how far we come with it (volunteers welcome!!!). Here some link: http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mySTEP/objc-2.0/ -- hns _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
