I am not suggesting open sourcing UIKit or Cocoa (or any platform specific UI code). I am suggesting creating a very small open source swift-corelib that sits on top of foundation, and adds basic visual concepts like Color, Image, AttributedText, and (hat tip to T.J.) BezierPaths. Things where the concepts themselves are completely cross-platform, and they really should be in foundation, except that they are visual concepts, and thus got packaged with the whole platform framework for historical reasons.
Thanks, Jon > On Jun 1, 2017, at 2:53 AM, Alex Blewitt <alb...@apple.com> wrote: > >> On 1 Jun 2017, at 09:57, Jonathan Hull <jh...@gbis.com >> <mailto:jh...@gbis.com>> wrote: >> >> I could be wrong, but my understanding is that Foundation is being open >> sourced as well, and distributed with Swift across various platforms. > > It is already open source; the source code for the Swift/Linux port is here: > > https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation > <https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation> > > However, Foundation has never contained any UI code, which on macOS is in the > Cocoa framework and on iOS in the UIKit framework. These are both Apple > frameworks, which you can discuss on the Apple mailing lists. To find the > appropriate one, you can consult https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo > <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo> - I would suggest the cocoa-dev > mailing list. > > Alex >
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