Feb 15 2022 Meeting

Notes from GNUstep meeting 15 February 2022 --

• 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?)