D/Objective-C Preliminary Design

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-11-03 23:28:38 -0400, Jason House <jason.james.house at gmail.com> said:

> What's the minimal set of O-C integration that would make your work 
> usable? I'd try to get that in early and incrementally improve 
> functionality.

That's a tricky question that depends on what you mean by "usable". I'd 
say that supporting extern (Objective-C) classes and interfaces and 
constructors is the minimal functionality to make things usable. But is 
it acceptable to put into mainline DMD something that is scheduled to 
work differently once I implement the rest, such as the memory 
management section with automatic reference counting?

I'm know I should release things early to let those interested test it 
and give me some feedback (and create bindings), but I'm not sure 
whether it should be merged into the trunk so early. With Walter's 
permission, I could publish my git repository to let people peek at the 
code. I haven't done so before because it's a clone of the SVN 
repository and it contains the backend too, which is under a less open 
license.

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