OpenCFLite 476.17.1 Release
A few weeks ago, another Linux hacker named Grant Erickson contacted me to suggest joining forces on the CF-lite front. He had done some work porting the 299 version of CF-lite to Linux, and had stumbled across my more recent port of the 476.17 sources to the Windows platform (needed in support of my redistributable Windows WebKit project.) Grant has now successfully merged his sources into the archive, and we are now feature-compatible on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
We are attempting to track Apple's upstream CF-lite source tree, and so our number scheme is to use their version with a third digit added to represent our revision. We initially released as 476.17.0, but now have fixed a few bugs, added some more examples, and cleaned things up.
CF-lite isn't as sexy as WebKit, or even Bonjour, but is a quite useful, cross-platform abstraction that provides a generally useful toolkit that is the basis for a variety of Apple products. Although it is pure C, it has a nice Object Oriented design and is quite easy to learn.
If you haven't looked into it, please give it a glance. Mac OS X developers can especially benefit, since its objects are toll-free-bridged to Objective C, making it a breeze to compose high and low-level code in your software.
We are attempting to track Apple's upstream CF-lite source tree, and so our number scheme is to use their version with a third digit added to represent our revision. We initially released as 476.17.0, but now have fixed a few bugs, added some more examples, and cleaned things up.
CF-lite isn't as sexy as WebKit, or even Bonjour, but is a quite useful, cross-platform abstraction that provides a generally useful toolkit that is the basis for a variety of Apple products. Although it is pure C, it has a nice Object Oriented design and is quite easy to learn.
If you haven't looked into it, please give it a glance. Mac OS X developers can especially benefit, since its objects are toll-free-bridged to Objective C, making it a breeze to compose high and low-level code in your software.
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