With MacRuby seemingly abandoned, is there any constituency for using standard Ruby for Mac desktop deployment? I was very interested in trying to use Ruby with Tk, but was stymied by the lack of deployment API's. Tk is old-school, but it has the virtue of actually working with standard Ruby when nearly every other Ruby UI toolkit and framework does not (wxRuby, etc.) Is there any way to abstract any of the MacRuby/Ruby-Cocoa packaging tools (such as standalonify) into a general app bundling package? --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com
Hi Kevin, I don't think many app developers would want to publish their source code through the iTunes store. Another developer would quickly "swallow it up" into a larger application. I wouldn't be interested in any solution that doesn't compile the code. Bob Rice On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> wrote:
With MacRuby seemingly abandoned, is there any constituency for using standard Ruby for Mac desktop deployment? I was very interested in trying to use Ruby with Tk, but was stymied by the lack of deployment API's. Tk is old-school, but it has the virtue of actually working with standard Ruby when nearly every other Ruby UI toolkit and framework does not (wxRuby, etc.) Is there any way to abstract any of the MacRuby/Ruby-Cocoa packaging tools (such as standalonify) into a general app bundling package?
--Kevin
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On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:17:24 -0500 Robert Carl Rice <rice.audio@pobox.com> wrote:
I don't think many app developers would want to publish their source code through the iTunes store. Another developer would quickly "swallow it up" into a larger application. I wouldn't be interested in any solution that doesn't compile the code.
Beyond the fact that such theft might be a license violation if the code isn't open source, if the code *is* open source many people probably would not mind even if someone took their code. There's lots of open source apps on the App store. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
On 11/6/13, 10:17 PM, Robert Carl Rice wrote:
I don't think many app developers would want to publish their source code through the iTunes store. Another developer would quickly "swallow it up" into a larger application. I wouldn't be interested in any solution that doesn't compile the code.
I certainly respect this viewpoint. However, it doesn't change the fact that MacRuby appears to lack any development leadership at this point: how long before the framework starts to suffer from bit-rot? --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com
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