BridgeSupport [1] is new functionality in Leopard that makes the
current Haskell Objective-C bindings (HOC) obsolete (almost).
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The metadata is intended to be a resource for use beyond bridging.
Most frameworks on the system provide two chunks of XML BridgeSupport
metadata; succinct and full.
The succinct version contains all of the metadata not provided by the
Objective-C runtime (which provides about 80% of what is necessary to
do full fidelity calls in / out of Objective-C via libffi).
The full version contains just that, the full metadata required to
describe the APIs of the framework, including all the bits that could
be gleaned at runtime.
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BridgeSupport makes it unnecessary to parse Cocoa headers since all
the required data is right there in plain XML [2]. It's no longer
necessary to bundle libffi with HOC either since Leopard comes with a
much improved version.
I hereby propose to close up the old HOC project on SourceForge and
set up a new one at GoogleCode. I already did this but GoogleCode
noticed the SF project and is now waiting for permission from Wolfgang
and Andre.
Thanks, Joel
[1] http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/10/27/pyobjc-20-pyobjc-in-leopard/
[2] /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/
BridgeSupport/AppKitFull.bridgesupport
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