27 Apr 20:50
OpenMCL and Tiger status
From: Gary Byers <gb <at> clozure.com>
Subject: OpenMCL and Tiger status
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.openmcl.devel
Date: 2005-04-27 18:54:01 GMT
Subject: OpenMCL and Tiger status
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.openmcl.devel
Date: 2005-04-27 18:54:01 GMT
At this point, I'd guess that Tiger will probably be on store shelves before OpenMCL 0.14.4 is released, but probably not much before. The biggest problem that I'm aware of with Tiger and 0.14.3 is that the Cocoa bridge has trouble interpreting some strings used to encode method parameter and instance variable types (either because GCC 4.0 encodes those types a little differently, because new methods/ivars have type signatures that contain constructs that the bridge hasn't yet seen, or both.) I've been working on extending the interface translator and databases to retain information about ObjC classes and methods; this isn't finished yet, but the good news is that things seem to work about as well under a late Tiger prerelease as they do on Panther. There are some other things that I'd like to try to get into 0.14.4 to address some long-standing problems. The bleeding-edge has been bleeding a little more than usual (the interface translator, databases, and lisp image change fairly regularly). This is starting to stabilize, and I hope to be able to put together a few testing releases before 0.14.4. If people are able to test these (on Panther, Tiger, Linux ...), that'd be very helpful. (Likewise, if people have any luck in reproducing a few of the weird low-level bugs/crashes that have been reported, that'd also be very helpful.)
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