Re: [Pyobjc-dev] AppKit/__init__.py complexity

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 12:41 US/Eastern, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> The current versions of the informal_protocol definitions also list 
> whether methods are optional or not, and that cannot be inferred from 
> the header files. Not having the additional information wouldn't be 
> too bad, I'm sure Cocoa will complain loudly if an object doesn't 
> implement the required parts of a protocol.

Yes.  It does... but not as loudly or as elegantly as PyObjC.   Having 
whipped off about a dozen little PyObjC apps to make my world a more 
sane place, I can say with enthusiasm that the informal protocol 
validation done by PyObjC is a huge boon!  It'd be even better if it 
spewed a method definition that could just be copied/pasted and even 
better if there were a command line tool that could be used to dump all 
the decls for a particular informal protocol.

I would hate to see that functionality lost -- given that the protocols 
don't change over time, I will volunteer for the tedious task of making 
sure that there are decls for all of 'em based on my previous emails 
analaysis of what needs to be wrapped.   Then it is just a matter of 
updating them over time based on the release notes coming from Apple -- 
given that there have been no major API changes except with major 
releases of the OS and *that* has only been additions, it should not be 
hard to stay on top of this stuff.

b.bum