On 7-Nov-07, at 5:14 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:
BridgeSupport [1] is new functionality in Leopard that makes the current Haskell Objective-C bindings (HOC) obsolete (almost).
"Almost" here means about five to ten percent of the code ;-). If the BridgeSupport files really contain all the information we need, then we can indeed drop the Objective-C parsing code from HOC and use a BridgeSupport parser instead. Unfortunately, that parser itself is less than 500 lines out of 7000 (in the HOC library and the InterfaceGenerator taken together). But the sheer beauty of having someone else maintain the parser for us should make it worthwhile. One big piece of information we need that is currently missing from the BridgeSupport files is which declaration comes form which header file. HOC's module structure currently follows Apple's .h files, and we need the module system for resolving naming ambiguities. So either we need to change that, or we need to get the information from elsewhere. There might be other small things missing, we'll have to carefully look at the details.
[...] It's no longer necessary to bundle libffi with HOC either since Leopard comes with a much improved version.
Yes, that's one great little addition to Mac OS X :-).
I hereby propose to close up the old HOC project on SourceForge and set up a new one at GoogleCode. I already did this but GoogleCode noticed the SF project and is now waiting for permission from Wolfgang and Andre.
I haven't had a chance recently to do a thorough comparison of different open source hosting providers, so I have no opinion on this one. So if you want to invest time in maintaining HOC, and you want to maintain it on GoogleCode, then so be it. How do I give my permission? Cheers, Wolfgang