[Sparkle] Plan to support garbage collection?

[Brad Miller]

I believe you have to build two versions unless there is a setting for  
frameworks that I'm not aware of.  According to Bill Bumgarner, GC or  
dual mode code will only run on Leopard.  When compiling dual mode  
code, the compiler generates references to symbols that only exist on  
Leopard.    If anyone knows how to make a "fat" framework, I'd love to  
hear how.

Brad



On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Andy Matuschak wrote:

> Oops! Okay, so it turns out this is really hard—I didn't understand  
> before. To make a proper "dual-mode" framework (that is, one that  
> runs linked to both garbage-collected and traditionally-managed  
> binaries), you have to both maintain proper retain counts for all  
> objects in the system and maintain strong links to anything you want  
> to keep track of.
>
> Sparkle doesn't really do the latter for a number of things, so  
> these objects (like the appcast, and some of the dialogs) would need  
> to be kept as ivars of the SUUpdater for this to work properly.
>
> Even if that work were done, though, the problem is a little more  
> complicated because only the 10.5 SDK has the necessary functions  
> (objc_ivar_assign and friends) to make GC-supported work correctly.  
> But Sparkle supports 10.3 on. So how do we make this work? Separate  
> versions of the framework for 10.3+ and 10.5-gc-only? I'm not  
> totally sure.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with creating dual-mode frameworks  
> that run on pre-Leopard?
>
> - Andy Matuschak
>
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Dave Verwer wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have tried this again but unfortunately it does not seem to have
>> done the trick. I checked the latest trunk out and compiled it
>> successfully but when including that framework in my app I still get
>> told that Sparkle.framework "was not compiled with -fobjc-gc or
>> -fobjc-gc-only"
>>
>> I opened up the Sparkle xcodeproj and checked the options, when I
>> check the GC options for the Sparkle framework target it says
>> "Multiple Values" which is strange as I am not sure how you can have
>> multiple values for one target.
>>
>> Switching the GC options to "Supported" for the framework, I get the
>> original errors I was getting yesterday[1]. It seems to be  
>> complaining
>> about _objc_assign_ivar and _objc_assign_global being used. This is
>> not referenced anywhere in the source, I am hitting a dead end really
>> as I am fairly new to Cocoa and ObjC.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [1] - http://pastie.caboo.se/152117
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/13/08, Andy Matuschak <andy at andymatuschak.org> wrote:
>>> I just tried turning on gc-supported, and it recompiled with no
>>> warnings or errors. I committed the change to trunk; give it a try
>>> again?
>>>
>>> - Andy Matuschak
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Dave Verwer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I tried compiling trunk with GC supported but there were a couple  
>>>> of
>>>> errors, are there any plans to support it any time soon?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
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