[mac-lisp-ide] Where /is/ everyone?

[mikel evins]

On Mar 23, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote:

> On Mar 23, 2004, at 12:04 PM, mikel evins wrote:
>> - the code for the listener and inspector are minimally changed from 
>> the Cocoa example code. Someone needs to read through it, look for 
>> opportunities to refactor, improve package organization, look for 
>> dead code, document undocumented code, check for unexported symbols 
>> that need to be exported and vice versa, move generally useful 
>> utilities into more generally-accessible places in the build, and 
>> just generally make the code prettier and better factored wherever 
>> that can be done.
>
> This is the project I was going to start on next. I was going to focus 
> on the listener for the time being, but both are on the agenda.

It badly needs to be done, but go slowly; it's fragile code and it's a 
bit hard to find and fix the sources of breakage when you break it.

>
>> - a nibfile reader/writer
>> 	I'd like some Lisp code that can read and write nibfiles, to form 
>> the basis of Lisp-based tools to help build UIs with Clotho.
>>
>> [A few weeks back I hacked up a very simple reader; it was pretty 
>> easy. I think this would be a good starter project for someone with 
>> at least a little familiarity with either Lisp or Cocoa or both.]
>
> This is the new feature I am most interested in right now - I think it 
> would be a great help in sharpening both my Lisp skills and my Cocoa 
> skills. Any chance you could send me the code you hacked together just 
> so I can get some ideas on a starting point?
>

It was just in-the-listener kinds of stuff to see if I could do it 
easily, but I'll try to send you something tonight.

--me