[Mono-osx] [Cocoa-sharp] Crash Cocoa-Sharp

[Ryan Boggs]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Esterbrook
<chuck.esterbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Ryan Boggs
> <rmboggs.obsd.ports at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another question,
>> If cocoa-sharp is unmaintained and people, like me, are being directed
>> away from cocoa-sharp to other projects, why is it still included with
>> the mono releases?  Unless there are some internals that still depend
>> on it, cocoa-sharp seems to be just added fat.
>
> My understanding is that it is there for any projects that might have
> started using it. So that if you upgrade Mono, your Cocoa# app doesn't
> break.
>

This makes sense to me.  However, wouldn't those projects start
breaking as well?

> I agree it's problematic in that it's distracting to new users.
>

Agreed.  Wouldn't it be possible to maybe mark cocoa-sharp as
depreciated or would that be too much for something like this?

> I wouldn't mind seeing it pushed out to a separate project and a Mono
> wiki page directing people to the various choices for Obj-C bridging.
>

Yeah, something like this would be good.  It would be better than
having stale pages referring to cocoa-sharp.

> -Chuck
>



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Thanks,
Ryan