On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 02.01.2010 16:22, schrieb David Chisnall: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> With the non-fragile ABI, Apple removed support for class posing. This >> makes sense, because it's no longer possible to guarantee that the class >> has the same ivar layout. >> >> I'm tempted to do the same thing for our non-fragile ABI. This has the >> added advantage that you could then statically export class names as >> linker symbols, which would make class messages a lot faster (you'd no >> longer need to do the lookup each time, and all of the ugly stuff in >> GNUstep where the class pointer is cached could go away). >> >> Any objections? >> > > I never used pose-as in my code and haven't heard a request for it for a > long time. Because of this I definitely wont object that change. > But it is rather the people who use it who should respond here.
afaik the main "client" of poseAs is Camaelon (I used it to swap images on the fly) -- but considering the progresses on GSTheme it should be fine to deprecate poseAs. -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
