[Cocoa-sharp] Volunteering for Dumentation (Dave Jewell)

[Aaron Flynt]

You may want to look at the source for earlier versions of cocoa- 
sharp. The original version was generated. Search the ML archive for  
Geoff Norton's (Kangaroo's) reasoning behind changing to the current  
non-generated implementation. Those past issues may be worthy of  
consideration when planning a new implemetation.

Personally, I'm ambivalent on the generated/non-generated debate. I  
just figured you might benefit from examining previous efforts.

-=Aaron=-

On Feb 9, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Chris Zelenak wrote:

>
> I think a few others  ( including myself ) have proposed the idea -  
> I believe it'd certainly be possible.
>
> Someone just needs to do it.  ;-)
>
>
> .ns.
>
> On 2/9/07, Dave Jewell <davejewell at mac.com> wrote:
> With Todd's help, I've been able to download and compile the 0.9.4
> sources which seem to be the latest.  However, the level of activity
> seems to be low.  When I look at the various source files (e.g.
> ProgressIndicator.cs , Strings.cs, etc) it became apparent that very
> few of the needed methods and properties have been implemented.  I
> don't say that as a criticism: from the look of this 'glue' code,
> writing this code would be very tedious and error-prone.
>
> This got me thinking: might it be possible to come up with some
> automated method for generating a lot of this glue?  If a utility
> such as class-dump can pick apart the interface of a Cocoa framework,
> then might it be possible to pipe the output from class-dump into
> some other tool that could then generate much of the glue?  Ok, I
> realise I'm being a bit simplistic here: you'd need to tell the tool
> to (for example) pair up setWidgetSize: and widgetSize into a single
> property at the C# level, but does anyone think this might be  
> feasible?
>
> Dave
>
> > Yikes! Boy if you are correct then I may have volunteered for more
> > that I
> > had bargained for....doh. I guess I'll wait a few more days to see
> > if I get
> > any other replys about the leadership team. Being new to this whole
> > "open
> > source" development community stuff, I don't know what is typical
> > or not. I
> > aid in the development of airborne software and I'm used to process,
> > process, process...and deadlines, deadlines, deadlines....
>
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