Re: Foundation based on CoreFoundationLite

[David Chisnall]

On 23 Mar 2010, at 11:24, Vincent Richomme wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to know if it would be possible to write a Foundation based on
> CoreFoundationLite (open source from apple) ?

It's theoretically possible, but it would be a massive amount of work and seems 
a bit pointless when there are existing Foundation implementations out there.  
CFLite only implements a very small subset of Foundation, and isn't designed 
for interacting with Objective-C.

> Actually objective-c is not an ultimate goal for me and ideally I would
> like to
> be able to call objective-c methods only using c.

Then I'm not really sure why you want Foundation at all....

> It would imply that each NS type should have a corresponding C
> type(CFxxx).

The make_c_interface tool in CoreBase/Tools in GNUstep svn will spit out a C 
interface to an Objective-C class.  No CFLite required.  

> Is it theroretically possible to do this ?


Possible, yes.  Sensible?  Not so much.

David

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