Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Snowleopard GC & 64-bit (also easy_install)

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 19 Oct, 2009, at 20:31, Jonathan Wight wrote:

>> On 19 Oct, 2009, at 16:36, Jonathan Wight wrote:
>>
>> * AFAIK Python is not build correctly to link into GC enabled
>> applications
>>
>> * While I try to ensure that PyObjC's reference management is safe
>> w.r.t. GC (using CFRetain/CFRelease rather than -retain/-release) I
>> have never tested if this is sufficient. That means PyObjC is almost
>> certainly unsafe w.r.t. GC.
>
> Anything I can do to help?

Probably not. Getting PyObjC into a GC-safe state requires code review  
and while others could do that I'm probably the only one that can do  
this with a reasonable amount of effort.  The pyobjc-core code is  
rather hairy :-(
>
> Would love to get PyObjc up and running on GC/64-bit.

Me too ;-)

Ronald
>
> 	Jon.
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