Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Incompatible change in CVS

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> I've just checked in a patch that introduces the package PyObjCTools 
> and moved Foundation.Conversion and AppKit.NibClassBuilder to this 
> package. The AppKit and Foundation packages now only contain wrappers 
> for functionality in Apple's Cocoa libraries.

Great, thanks. We could in theory provide a b/w compatible
AppKit.NibClassBuilder that issues a warning. Not sure if it's worth it,
though.

> It is also no longer necessary to call the release method on objects 
> allocated using the 'alloc' classmethod, due to a fix for bug 711700.

But does this also mean that code that _does_ release objects that were
allocated using alloc will now crash?

Just