[libdispatch-dev] Welcome to libdispatch-dev!

David Leimbach leimy2k at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 08:47:39 PDT 2009


Very cool!
It took me about a week, but I've quickly become a fan of this API, with and
without blocks :-)


Dave

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Kevin Van Vechten <kvv at apple.com> wrote:

> Welcome to libdispatch-dev!
>
> The libdispatch-dev mailing list is intended to be used for technical
> discussion related to libdispatch.
>
> At least initially, we intend this list to be dual-purpose for both the
> discussion of libdispatch API usage as well as discussion of the internals
> of libdispatch.  As the project matures it may become necessary to spin off
> another discussion list to separate these two topics.
>
> The libdispatch sources hosted at Mac OS Forge correspond to the
> implementation provided in Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard.  Projects
> currently being undertaken with these sources include:
>
> * Setting up a Mac OS X build environment.
> Use of DarwinBuild <http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/> to allow modified
> libdispatch sources to be deployed in a custom libSystem on Mac OS X.
>
> * Makefile/autoconf based build system.
> To facilitate porting to other platforms such as FreeBSD or Linux.
>
> * OS abstraction / refactoring
> Investigations around abstracting and refactoring the code base to support
> other operating systems, particularly in the area of dispatch event sources
> (current based on kqueues).
>
> We look forward to your participation!
>
> Kevin Van Vechten
> On behalf of the GCD team
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