[Drawkit] New Beta drop now available

[António Nunes]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:51 AM, Graham Cox wrote:

>> 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).

Yes it will ;-)

What I meant to say was that whatever project DK lands in, it will be  
a GC'd project (which needs will cause DK to be garbage collected).  
I'll make whatever modifications necessary to have DK run correctly in  
a GC'd environment. The retain/release calls should by and large be a  
non-issue. I expect the non-Objective-C parts of the framework to need  
closer inspection tough.

> One thing that will happen very soon is DK will be revved to work
> correctly when linked against the 10.5 SDK

Great. I spent some time a few months ago getting the previous seed to  
build on 10.5 and sort of managed before other obligations dragged me  
away from DK. This will be a considerable time saver.

Cheers,
António

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