On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Mar 2008, at 09:19, Markus Hitter wrote: > > > > > Am 19.03.2008 um 08:14 schrieb David Wetzel: > > > >> Am 19.03.2008 um 01:37 schrieb Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> How about an adaptor between CoreData and a real database > >>> (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)? > >> > >> GNUstep has EOF/GDL2, OS X has not, just Java based. > > > > Not to lower GDL2's value, but for some reason Apple has replaced > > EOF with CoreData. My impression is, they drastically reduced the > > (exposed) API while retaining everything most programmers need. > > A colleague recently pointed me at a Cocoa developer podcast which > complained about CoreData as a horribly broken subset of EOF. If a > CoreData-style wrapper around GDL2 could be written (I don't know > either API well enough to know how hard this would be) then it could > be very attractive to Cocoa developers (port CoreData apps to GDL2 and > get all of the extra shiny EOF features for free) and provide GNUstep > with a bit more exposure.
Saso Kiselkov started a gnustep implementation of CoreData: http://gscoredata.nongnu.org/ but I don't know its current state. > I don't know how much Apple are still pushing CoreData - it doesn't do > anything nice with spotlight indexing, and the big blob files don't > play nicely with File Vault, so I wouldn't be surprised if they > quietly stop pushing it soon. Or improve it... I see CoreData as a first step toward getting rid of files to get something more akin to NewtonOS soups. -- Nicolas Roard "Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++ " -- Frank Winkler _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
