[Drawkit] New Beta drop now available

[Graham Cox]

On 16 Apr 2008, at 3:40 pm, António Nunes wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Dave Robertson wrote:
>
>> I'd like to agree with Brads suggestion to use Leopard features.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll second (third) that. If I get around to using DrawKit as I mean
> to it will target 10.5 and will be garbage collected.


No it won't. DK isn't garbage collected and probably never will be.  
That doesn't mean you can't use it in a 10.5 app using GC (as far as I  
am aware) but internally DK uses the classic retain/release approach  
(which personally I like - I'm not a big fan of GC).


One thing that will happen very soon is DK will be revved to work  
correctly when linked against the 10.5 SDK - this mainly involves  
converting a few things to use UTIs. Right now you can build against  
the 10.5 SDK but I don't recommend it until these issues are properly  
explored - there are behavioural differences between the two SDKs that  
Cocoa pulls strings to make work on Leopard, but if you build against  
10.5 this doesn't happen, so things don't always work quite as intended.

> Kudos for making
> DrawKit available though. It is much appreciated.


You're welcome ;-)

G.