mulle-objc 0.19 Release

The mulle-clang compiler has been pushed to version 12, following the llvm project. Again, like last release, there should not be a noticable difference between this mulle-clang and the last one.

There have been a lot of API changes, especially in mulle-container, but also in mulle-objc-runtime, which you will notice when recompiling.

If you are new to the project, then head on over to mulle-objc and foundation-developer for installation instructions and help.

Release Notes

Instead of rehashing what’s in the release notes, I just point out the release notes, which contain interesting changes.

Remember: Projects with a zero version major (0.x.y) are still alpha and can have breaking changes with each minor change.

mulle-c

mulle-buffer and mulle-container got API breaking changes, so a major bump in the version was needed. Parts of mulle-container have been moved to mulle-data, but also some function signatures changed. And most importantly there is an effort to make enumerators across the various data structures more uniform:

mulle-concurrent

There is a new small project mulle-fifo, which can be useful for fixed size pipes between two threads. mulle-thread has a change in the return value of mulle_thread_create:

mulle-core

mulle-mmap gained some functionality, but the major change is the addition of mulle-time:

mulle-objc

mulle-objc-runtime and MulleObjC have interesting changes, the other projects are pretty much as before. Major changes are the split-off of MulleObjCLockFoundation from MulleObjC. There have been major changes and breaking changes to the way -copy and -mutableCopy: are implemented:

At the moment all mulle-objc and MulleFoundation projects still have a synced version number. This was supposed to change, but hasn’t except for mulle-objc-developer…

MulleFoundation

New repositories mulle-bunchobjects, MulleObjCArchiverFoundation, MulleObjCLockFoundation, MulleObjCPlistFoundation appeared! Mostly for reorganization of existing content. Otherwise a few methods have been added here and there. And there are a few breaking changes because of method renamings, that happened for consistency.

MulleWeb

There is a new project MulleBase64, otherwise MulleWeb was only updated to work with the changes in MulleFoundation:

mulle-sde

mulle-sde gained two new projects, mulle-semver and mulle-domain. Most projects have seen massive improvements: