[Mono-osx] (no subject)

[Andrew Satori]

I've been periodically sending mail to the xcode-feedback group at  
Apple to try and rattle a few cages.  I also have a friend that works  
in DTS at Apple.  Through him, here is what I _know_:

* The documentation does exist.
* the interfaces are incomplete, or more accurately subject to change.
* there are a couple of 'camps' within apple, some pushing to release  
this, others resisting.

 From what little response I've gotten here is what I _think_:

The hurdles preventing the release are entirely political, and  
politics in a company like Apple can stonewall something like this  
for months or years.  I'm a one man company, and lack the clout to  
get results at this point.  Getting multiple people hounding apple is  
probably the best solution to overcoming the politics.

Andy



On Oct 31, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
>
> Ok, this probably has been hashed out before...
>
> Andy, do you (or anybody else) have an idea of how we can bend the  
> right
> peoples' ears in the Apple Dev tools group? Random users howling about
> it on mailing lists hasn't produced what we need, but somebody in the
> community probably has the connections to talk seriously with Apple's
> management...
>
> Given Apple's somewhat open stance with OSS, I'd hope we could get  
> some
> help with extending XCode. I can see them not being ready to spend the
> resources to come up with a nice polished XCode SDK, but they ought to
> be willing to devote a bit of time to a few registered, NDA'd external
> people. "Here's the class dumps and a quickie writeup on how this  
> stuff
> works under the covers".
>
> -Pete
>