[Biococoa-dev] modernizing BioCocoa

[Craig Bateman]

I looked at doing a lot of these things when I first joined, but with the requirement that everything be able to compile by gnu objc+openstep I didn't know what's allowed or not and then life got in my way and I haven't even looked at the code I started to branch so long ago...  

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On May 28, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdrift at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I recently started looking again at Cocoa programming, and what better
> way to dive back into BioCocoa to get my memory refreshed!  While
> reading some current Cocoa docs from Apple, I learned that since my
> absence many new features have been added to ObjC, now called ObjC2.
> Probably nothing new for y'all :)
> 
> Things I'm talking about are fast enumeration, garbage collecting,
> properties, cleaning up warnings because of deprecated methods, and
> maybe more.
> 
> So, I was thinking as a first task for me is to go through the
> framework, and implement/update the code with (some of) the above
> mentioned features.  This would also mean that the lowest OS that
> BioCocoa will run on is OSX 10.5, which is when ObjectiveC2 was
> introduced.
> 
> Are there any objections to this plan? I could for instance make a new
> branch for this, maybe tagged version 2.5 or 3.0?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Koen.
> 
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