Re: The need for a libobjc maintainer

[Steve Naroff <snaroff at apple dot com>]

> Btw I think the idea of merging the two runtimes is brilliant :-)

As far as Apple is concerned, we have 2 requirements:

#1: Need to preserve binary compatibility.
#2: Performance.

Unification clearly simplifies code maintenance. Unfortunately, the 
most portable solutions can often sacrifice performance. This is the 
reason dispatching works differently between the Apple/GNU runtimes. 
When Kresten was developing the GNU runtime, we (i.e. NeXT at the time) 
considered unification. At the time, the GNU approach sacrificed 
performance for portability. As a result, we didn't unify.

Nevertheless, unifying stuff that doesn't sacrifice performance or 
break binary compatibility is goodness.

snaroff

On Nov 3, 2003, at 2:53 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > > We would be happy to have Andrew become libobjc maintainer. Andrew
> > > seems to have some motivation to apply outstanding patches and good
> > > ideas for the future. However, being the other large user of GCC
> > > Objective-C (and the major user of GNU libobjc), I think we would 
> > > like
> > > to see a GNUstep developer be appointed as a co-maintainer.  I think
> > > it is important that we have some visibility and authority over the
> > > long-term direction of the system.
> > >
> > > If you agree, I'd like to nominate Nicola Pero. Nicola already has
> > > write-on-approval status with GCC and has actively been involved in
> > > patching and improving GCC Objective-C and libobjc.
> >
> > Yes, absolutely.  It would be good to have one maintainer who actually
> > lives on the GNU runtime day-to-day, and then another who has exposure
> > to the Darwin side of things (esp. differences between the GNU and 
> > NeXT
> > runtimes).  So, if Nicola agrees to run for office :-), I'm definitely
> > for nominating both him and Andrew.
>
> Yes, I do.
>
> Btw I think the idea of merging the two runtimes is brilliant :-)
>
> But It'd require a lot of cooperation, and also a lot of work, so it 
> might
> be more of a long-term wish than an immediate deliverable.  But I'd be
> very happy to help with it / coordinate GNUstep efforts to help with 
> it.
>
>
>
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