On 13/04/2026 04:35, Todd White wrote:
Hi GNUstep Team,
As an exercise to test out the latest Claude AI capabilities, we
recently completed a comprehensive, bottom-up code audit of the
GNUstep core stack — all seven repositories — covering libobjc2,
libs-base, libs-corebase, libs-opal, libs-quartzcore, libs-gui, and
libs-back.
Thanks for that, it looks like very worthwhile work. I can't really
comment on other packages, but I'd certainly like to incorporate a lot
of that into GNUstep-base. In the areas of the base library I can see
quite a mixture of stuff, some of which is already known, other parts
are quite new. For instance, at one extreme having server verification
off by default was a decision from many years back, but one where a
change was long overdue, while at the other extreme the check for
cross-thread autorelease pool draining deals with such a perverse
situation (I find it hard to concieve of any way to accidentally do
that) that it's quite delightful to have a check/fix for it (though
classifying it as a critical issue seems silly).
In an ideal world, I'd want to see an individual patch for each issue.
The patch would contain the source code change, the corresponding
testcases, and a ChangeLog entry, but the cloned repos contain only the
first of those.
Can the LLM take the testcases it has generated and rewrite them as
portable (excluding objc2 and/or platform specific features or
controlling them with preprocessor macros) code as used by the gnustep
regression testing framework, and add them to the regression tests in
each package?
Thanks
