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Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
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Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )


  • Subject: Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
  • From: Philip Mötteli <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:48:13 +0200

Am Montag, 14.10.02, um 12:06 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Simon Stapleton:
On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Jim Menard wrote:
Kevin Callahan writes:
On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Brian E. Howard wrote:

And bring back EOF for Cocoa. . . .

EOF ObjC/Cocoa is number one on my list. What a crying shame it's
gone.

How hard would it be to reverse-engineer EOF? I only looked at it
briefly
when it first came out. Does anyone have the original documentation?

I Started to make my own from the specification, but changed it from EO
prefix to PO for persistence as it seems when people associate apple
and enterprise they seem to shudder and run for the hills. I have not
done much on it lately due to work commitments and other pet projects,
but I have done approx 25 percent of the frameworks, and 63 percent of
a modeller application. I hope to get around to completing it in the
new year - (only 8 weeks away).

I too (one of the many) have a half-written persistence layer laying around on my hard drive. I started writing it for a project that got canned but absolutely couldn't have GPL code (thus negating the possibility of using the GNUStep db-library). The _really_ stupid thing about this is that one of the intended targets for the app was GNUStep...

I'd suggest if people need EOF (and they do!), spending a bit of time on the GNUStep stuff.

This subject has been discussed many times here: The problem with the GnuStep "EOF" is, that Apple has some patents on EOF. So GnuStep DB is stuck on version 2 of EOF.
If I remember well, the patent concerns the key-value coding.
I even heard, that internally, they already have a GnuStep EOF version 3.


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