Re: status and suggestions

David O'Toole <[email protected]> 17 Mar 2003 18:28:04 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octal.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> octal is a cool idea and resembles in many ways a project I abandoned
> long ago. I'd like to contribute but I'm wondering, what is the current
> status? is it being actively hacked upon?

Yeah, things are still happening (not all checked into CVS.) it's just
been slow as I have been working full-time to save up money to go back
to university and finish my Master's. This was part of why I decided to
use Objc, I found dealing with gobject very time-consuming (ad-hoc
preprocessors like Gob do not seem very appetizing to me either ;-) 

> Also, I was looking through the CVS and I saw your [dto] shells of
> implementations of some data structures in ObjC. Instead of reinventing
> the wheel, I have to recommend octal use ObjC wrappers around the
> Kazlib, which is robust and well tested:

I've decided to wrap Glib's data structures as these are included with
GTK+. 


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David O'Toole <[email protected]>