[Cocoa-sharp] The State of the Art

[Edward Carr]

Todd,

 

I'm actually in a similar situation to what you are. I have been using
Cocoa# for a project that is working out really well. I've added a good
15-20 new classes, a new library (for Quicktime), and a ton of new methods.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of how to do patches, as this is the first Open
Source project I've worked on, and I'm very much a Windows oriented
developer.

 

If anyone could give some direction on getting a patch created, I would
gladly contribute what I have developed.

 

Edward Carr

 

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From: cocoa-sharp-bounces at lists.ximian.com
[mailto:cocoa-sharp-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Todd Schavey
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:50 AM
To: Stefano Falda
Cc: cocoa-sharp at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Cocoa-sharp] The State of the Art

 

Stefano,

>From a software enhancement standpoint, I really don't know how active
CoocaSharp is. I've been on the mailing list for about 2.5 months and have
not see a software "patch" the entire time. I, personally, I been working on
a tutorial for C# WinForm Programmers trying to using CocoaSharp. Duirng
this process I have found several addition to the CocoaSharp framework that
need to be added. So....I added them to my local copy...but simply do not
have any guideance as to how to get this code in the official distribution. 

I've yet to see and 'leadership' step forward. Miguel of mono swung by
breifly to nix the idea of CocoaSharp migrating to the Mono wiki....but that
about it.

This all adds up to frustration and I'm already having doubts whether I
simply will finish the tutorial I've got started, post it...and then wait
patiently for Objective-C 2.0

C#, in my opinion, is currently the 'best' compiled language to develop in.
However, Cocoa (a.k.a. OpenStep) was written in Objective-C and for
Objective-C. After taking a swang at the awkward language....I have to say
that I quickly warmed to the language....but havng to perform allocs,
deallocs, retains, and releases....quickly threw me back to the dark age of
90's (grin). 

I still hold a lot of promise with CocoaSharp....I just wish whatever
leadership is on the seemingly sinking ship would crawl out from the rock
there under and give a little direction.

Todd

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