[Cocoa-sharp] Cocoa namespace

Chuck Esterbrook chuck.esterbrook at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 00:45:51 EST 2008


I assume Christian meant to go through the list and I don't see any
personal info in his post so:

On Jan 24, 2008 9:21 PM, Christian Bjelle <christian at bjelle.se> wrote:
> Wouldn't something like:
>
> using Apple.FoundationKit;
> using Apple.AddressBook;
>
> make more sense than ObjC.FoundationKit etc, hinting more on the
> environment rather than some implementation specific detail...
>
> //Christian Bjelle

While I think the chances are small, might Apple protest the use of
their trademarked name? I could see some lawyer deciding that we're
confusing consumers as potentially being Apple or an Apple sponsored
project.

Also, the GNUstep guys might like something more general than "Apple"
since "Apple" they are not: http://www.gnustep.org/

Their chief maintainer is on this list, so they have at least some
interest in connecting with us.

Also, this is very much about using Objective-C classes from Mono
including dealing with ObjC method names (foo:bar:) and different
boxing techniques (NSNumber). And Objective-C is not going away:
NeXT/Apple have been using it since ~1989 and they just updated it.

-Chuck


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