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

[Aaron Flynt]

I'm not saying that it isn't a worthwhile endeavor. I'm just saying  
that you might want to check out what Kangaroo had to say about it  
first and see if the issues are still relevant.

-=Aaron=-

On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Chris Zelenak wrote:

> When I had last had a Mac :-) a few months ago and was cruising the  
> coca-sharp IRC chan, someone(?) that was taking a look at the patch  
> I was sending indicated that it'd be a worthwhile endeavor.   Sorry  
> to steer you wrong, man.
>
>
> .ns.
>
> On 2/9/07, Aaron Flynt <aaron at aaronflynt.com> wrote:
> 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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