[Pyobjc-dev] Development branch

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

Hello all,

I've (finally!) merged my work on PyObjC on branch 'subclass-branch'. 
This features a number of changed w.r.t. my last snapshot:

* A number of bugfixes
* Restructured the directory structure
* Skeleton of documention
* More examples

This is experimental code, but it is already quite usable: I'm using it 
to write a 'real' application.

I've checked in a number of generated files, mostly because the build 
process doesn't generate those files (yet).

Some things that need to be done (in no particular order):
* More debugging and documenting
* The extension modules for Cocoa support (wrappers for global 
functions and a number of
   helper functions) are incomplete. Parts of this are generated, it is 
probably usefull to
   replace those by code that is generated by bgen but I don't known how 
to do that.
* There is a mechanisme for writing helper functions for methods that 
have pointer arguments.
   I've written a number of those helper functions, and it might be 
usefull to come up with
   a way to generate those functions from a simpler description.
* I'm currently using lots of (generated) helper functions to implement 
subclassing (these
   functions are needed for the Objective-C dispatch table for a class 
and for calling the
   superclass implementation of a class from Python; the functions are 
in 'register.m'). It
   would be very usefull to look into a way to reduce the number of 
those functions.
* Fix all issues mentioned in 'BUGS' and 'FIXME' (some of those are 
probably already fixed)
* ...

Ronald