Re: [Pyobjc-dev] WebCore support

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

On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 22:58 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:

>
> On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 22:41 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On zaterdag, jun 28, 2003, at 15:01 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've just checked in a patch that (amongst others) enables support 
>>> for the constants in the WebCore framework. To compile the current 
>>> CVS version you have to install the WebCore SDK.
>>>
>>> I have not yet check if the compiled version will work on a system 
>>> without Safari 1.0. I don't want to rely on optional applications, 
>>> so if the binary version does not work without Safari 1.0 I'll roll 
>>> back this part of the patch until we find a better solution.
>>
>> Purely by chance I have a machine that's still at Safari beta 2, and 
>> unfortunately  PyObjC doesn't compile. I get a long string of error 
>> messages, starting with
>>
>> In file included from Modules/Foundation/_Foundation.m:233:
>> Modules/Foundation/_Fnd_Enum.inc:103: 
>> `NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways' undeclared here (not in a function)
>>
>> So I think we should leave this out.
> I already suspected that this would be an issue. What is IMHO more 
> important is: does a PyObjC compiled on a system with WebKit work on 
> that system. I'll be testing that later on a machine at work.

It doesn't. The only additions to Foundations are some constant 
definitions, including some NSStrings. I think those cause these 
problems. Maybe weak-linking will work for that.

Ronald