[mac-lisp-ide] Moving forward...

[Gary Byers]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, mikel evins wrote:

>
>
> Clotho is waiting on my paying job, rather than on any further releases
> from Gary, but it is true that Gary is near a new release of OpenMCL.
> The new release will have a new version of the Objective C interface,
> the first to provide CLOS metaclasses that make Objective C classes and
> methods look like CLOS classes and methods. There is a caveat for us:
> the initial release probably will make apps built on Jaguar
> unlaunchable on Panther and vice-versa. There is likely to be a period,
> therefore, where we really want to have both Jaguar and Panther hosts
> available for building binaries (though perhaps it's early enough in
> Clotho's lifespan that we can get away with sources-only releases for a
> while).
>

Just to clarify: we didn't get methods integrated (yet).  There's a
terse (but hopefully correct) description of what works (and known
limitations) in <http://openmcl.clozure.com/Doc/cocoa.html>.

Hopefully, the new release will be out later today.

Gary Byers
gb at clozure.com