[Pyobjc-dev] Towards PyObjC 5.0

[John F. <joh...@ma...>]

Thank you, Ronald! This is good news. 

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On July 10, 2018 at 1:00:34 PM, pyo...@li... (pyo...@li...(mailto:pyo...@li...)) wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Just a quick message about development on PyObjC 5.0. The process of updating PyObjC for macOS 10.14 is going faster than expected, although it has helped that I took time of from work during WWDC to work on this.
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> I expect to push out a first beta release of PyObjC 5 during the EuroPython 2018 sprints. This release should be feature complete (barring surprises in future SDK betas).
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> This is turning out to be a major milestone for PyObjC: with some luck PyObjC 5.0 will support almost all public frameworks in macOS, with the exception of deprecated frameworks that aren?t already wrapped and the Metal frameworks (Metal and MetalPerformanceShaders).
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> Major items on my TODO list until then:
> - Finish a number of bindings that require manual wrappers due to APIs that are too complex to expres correctly in metadata files
> - Work on support for APIs that have SIMD types as arguments or return values (such as vector_float3 in ObjC)
> - Work on providing DeprecationWarnings for APIs that are deprecated in macOS. The basic framework for this is present, I ?just? have add correct metadata for this.
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> Beyond 5: My current plan is that PyObjC 5 will be the last version of PyObjC that supports Python 2.7 and PowerPC.
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> I have not yet decided on 32-bit x86 support, that might be dropped as well (at least in the released binaries). Dropping support for 32-bit x86 would primarily make it easier to provide wheels, as the compiler tools in Xcode 10 no longer support that architecture.
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> Ronald
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