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

[mikel evins]

On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Timothy Moore wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:24 PM, mikel evins wrote:
>>
>
>> The current name of the Backend is "Cocoa", but that's probably not 
>> right. For one thing, it's OpenMCL-specific; what if you get an 
>> SBCL-based Cocoa Backend working, for example? I'd be interested in 
>> hearing people's naming suggestions before we go committing a new 
>> directory to McCLIM.
>>
> If a SBCL-based Cocoa backend appeared I'd really hope, in fact I 
> would insist, that it share code with an OpenMCL backend unless some 
> issue made that  completely impossible. I don't think we need to worry 
> about other Cocoa backends showing up any time soon :), but you could 
> call it "MetaCocoa" or something.
>

If nobody objects then I guess we can check it in as "Cocoa", on the 
understanding that code for future support of alternative lisps may 
require some reorganization (I always wince when I think about 
reorganizing directories in cvs).

--me