Log Message:
py-pyobjc*: updated to 8.5.1

Version 8.5

This release continues the work on test coverage in pyobjc-core, resulting in a \ 
number of minor bug fixes.

Added two options to the build_ext command in the setup.py of pyobjc-core:

--no-lto: Disable link time optimization
--no-warnings-as-errors: Disable -Werror
For struct bindings in frameworks the “in” operator no longer swallows \ 
exceptions raised by the __eq__ method.

Improved handing of invalid type encodings for struct types.

Fix crash while handling a struct wrapper with an invalid type encoding.

Fix handling of empty structs (such as struct foo { }; in objc.repythonify().

The type for NSObject.pyobjc_instanceMethod and NSObject.pyobjc_classMethods now \ 
supports the GC protocol to avoid garbage collection issues when the value for \ 
these properties is stored as an attribute (which introduces a reference cycle)

PyObjC should work with Python 3.11 alpha release, starting at alpha 6. Earlier \ 
alpha’s are not supported due to reverting a workaround for a bug that was \ 
fixed in alpha 6.

NSObject.alloc = 42 now fails. It was already impossible to replace a selector \ 
by something else through instances (NSObject.new().description = 42 raises).

Added objc.ObjCPointer.typestr with the same value as objc.ObjCPonter.type. The \ 
latter is now deprecated and will be removed in PyObjC 9.

Better error messages when a class implementing a protocol inherits a method of \ 
the wrong kind (“class” vs. “instance”).

The value of __slots__ in a class definition is now kept in the created class \ 
(previous versions always set the attribute to an empty tuple).

This is primarily useful when __slots__ is a dict that is used to document \ 
attributes.

Raise the correct exception when the name of a method is not an ASCII string.

objc.loadSpecialVar() now better enforces that the module_globals argument is a \ 
Python dictionary.

Fixed a crash in objc.loadSpecialVar() due to a missing pointer dereference.

pip install pyobjc-framework-... for a framework that is not present on the \ 
current machine will now give a better error message when the “wheel” \ 
package is not installed.

Setting an integer option in objc.options to a value of an incompatible type \ 
(such as a string) will now raise an exception as intended, instead of breaking \ 
the interpreter.

Trying to delete an attribute from objc.options now raises \ 
:type:`AttributeError` instead of :type:`TypeError`.

objc.selector now copies the default signature from its argument when that \ 
argument is another objc.selector.

Until now this would raise an exception.

Added some missing error checking in calls to PyObject_New() and PyObject_GC_New().

It is now possible to create an objc.selector from a callable that is not a \ 
function or bound method. This may require specifying the method signature in \ 
the call to objc.selector.

For pyobjc-core the build_ext command in setup.py now includes the command-line \ 
option from the standaard command, which means python setup.py build_ext -j 4 \ 
can now be used for parallel builds.

On my M1 laptop using python setup.py build_ext -j 8 halves the time needed to \ 
build the extension.

The test command setup.py now supports the -v option to print test cases while \ 
they are run, in previoius versions this required using the --verbosity option.

Improve error handling when dealing with “isHidden” selectors.

Added pyobjc_hiddenSelectors(classmethods) to objc.objc_class

This method returns a copy of the dictionary with “hidden” selectors, that \ 
is Objective-C selectors that are hidden from view.

The method is primarily a debugging aid for development of PyObjC itself.

ApplicationServices.AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions and \ 
Quartrz.CGPDFArrayGetObject had incorrect metadata.

The testsuites for the various framework bindings now have a test that does some \ 
basic checks on function and selector metadata. This test found the problem with \ 
CGPDFArrayGetObject.

Added objc._C_ATOMIC and objc._C_COMPLEX, both extracted from the clang sources \ 
after finding some type encodings that PyObjC could not decode.

objc._C_ATOMIC is ignored by PyObjC (for now), and objc._C_COMPLEX is not yet \ 
supported.

Fix internal error for _C_OUT argument markup on arguments that are \ 
CoreFoundation types.

This can only happen with invalid metadata definitions in framework bindings, \ 
and earlier versions this resulted in an internal assertion error. With this \ 
change the “output” argument is always None in the result.

Fix metadata for a number of functions with a C string argument

The metadata for the following functions was changed to have the correct type \ 
encoding for string argument, to fix issues with using non-ASCII (byte) strings.

ApplicationServices.PMWorkflowSubmitPDFWithOptions
CoreServices.LocaleRefGetPartString
Foundation.NSGetSizeAndAlignment
Network.nw_advertise_descriptor_create_bonjour_service
Network.nw_browse_descriptor_create_bonjour_service
Network.nw_browse_descriptor_get_bonjour_service_domain
Network.nw_browse_descriptor_get_bonjour_service_type
Network.nw_connection_copy_description
Network.nw_content_context_create
Network.nw_content_context_get_identifier
Network.nw_endpoint_copy_address_string
Network.nw_endpoint_copy_port_string
Network.nw_endpoint_create_bonjour_service
Network.nw_endpoint_create_host
Network.nw_endpoint_create_url
Network.nw_endpoint_get_bonjour_service_domain
Network.nw_endpoint_get_bonjour_service_name
Network.nw_endpoint_get_bonjour_service_type
Network.nw_endpoint_get_hostname
Network.nw_framer_create_definition
Network.nw_framer_message_access_value
Network.nw_framer_message_copy_object_value
Network.nw_framer_message_set_object_value
Network.nw_framer_message_set_value
Network.nw_framer_options_set_object_value
Network.nw_listener_create_with_port
Network.nw_privacy_context_create
Network.nw_quic_get_application_error_reason
Network.nw_quic_set_application_error
Network.nw_txt_record_access_key
Network.nw_ws_options_add_additional_header
Network.nw_ws_options_add_subprotocol
Quartz.CGContextSelectFont
Quartz.CGContextShowText
Quartz.CGContextShowTextAtPoint
Quartz.CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename
Quartz.CGPDFArrayGetName
Quartz.CGPDFContentStreamGetResource
Quartz.CGPDFDictionaryGetArray
Quartz.CGPDFDictionaryGetBoolean
Quartz.CGPDFDictionaryGetName
Quartz.CGPDFDocumentUnlockWithPassword
Quartz.CGPDFScannerPopName
Quartz.CGPDFTagTypeGetName
While fixing this issue I found problems with the metadata for these functions:

CoreMIDI.MIDIExternalDeviceCreate
CoreMedia.CMBlockBufferAccessDataBytes
CoreMedia.CMBlockBufferGetDataPointer
CoreMedia.CMBufferQueueInstallTriggerHandler
CoreMedia.CMBufferQueueInstallTriggerHandlerWithIntegerThreshold
CoreMedia.CMTextFormatDescriptionGetJustification
CoreServices.TECGetTextEncodingFromInternetNameOrMIB
DVDPlayback.DVDGetScanRate
MediaAccessibility.MACaptionAppearanceAddSelectedLanguage
There’s also a new test that checks for this problem in all exposed functions.

Fix incorrect reset of the “inline_list” attribute of the lazy importer, \ 
this could result in an incorrect TypeError when trying to access an \ 
non-existing attribute after looking at __all__.

Fix uniqueness of symbols exposed in the OpenDirectory bindings.

Unhide manual bindings for Security.SecKeychainFindGenericPassword and \ 
Security.SecKeychainFindInternetPassword.