View source for Feb 15 2022 Meeting

Notes from GNUstep meeting 15 February 2022
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* No plans to deprecate GCC 
* Add features from ObjC2 to GCC — Need buy in from GCC devs
** A first step could be to toggle the use of libobjc2 structure generation, before trying to upgrade GCC-libobjc
* Port libobjc2 to other architecture and make sure to stabilize on other platforms.
** Riccardo can help testing
* Fred to look into cooperation with David C. to bring in new features / changes to libobjc2
** Possibly create alternate build system (aside from cmake)
** Autoconf / Make build system available in parallel
* Ensure new versions of clang build objc code properly
** Add test suites to verify that a given version of clang works/builds.
* What are we planning to improve within GNUstep core libraries…
** Experimentally try things that might help make things better. (?)
** Weak pointers for delegates (?)
* Unreasonable expectations about what clang will actually do.
** Need more debugging and testing
** Younger developers struggle with using a limited subset of ObjC2 (objc “1”)
* Clang packages
* Education — Make developers aware of where the compiler ends and GNUstep starts (distinction between)
* Documentation of available methods and classes depending on language version. (Autogsdoc?)