[vlc-devel] VLCKit: half-baked ARC conversion

[Florent Pillet]

ARC is not mandatory, an application can freely mix ARC and non-ARC code (this is what apps using VLCKit do now as VLCKit itself is still not fully ARC compliant).

There are a few issues to sort out for ARC conversion, though. It mainly boils down to:

1. Formally completing the code transition from non-ARC to ARC
2. Raising the minimal OS required for VLCKit to run

The latter point will require raising the minimum OS X version from 10.6 to 10.7 (because of the use of weak references) and iOS from 4.x to 5.x (for the same reason).

I don't have the insight on VLCKit overall usage to make that kind of decision -- but at least if an ARC transition is started in the code as it is now, it should either be completed or rolled back.

Florent

On 06 Jul 2014, at 18:06, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:

> On 06 Jul, Florent Pillet wrote :
>> And more importantly, is VLCKit moving to ARC now?
> 
> Do we have any choice?
> 
> I thought ARC was now, de facto, the standard, no?