[MacRuby-devel] 0.3 available for testing

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Cool! Pulling it now.

Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's time for another release, this time 0.3. The content of trunk was  
> merged into the testing branch, and unless something really bad is  
> reported, it will be released tomorrow to the public.
> 
> There has been a lot of work on trunk recently, here are some  
> important changes:
> 
> - HotCocoa! This is a new core library that ships with MacRuby, and  
> greatly simplifies Cocoa programming, using Ruby idioms when  
> necessary. Rich Kilmer is the man behind most (to not say all) this  
> work. There are a few samples in the HotCocoa subdirectory, and some  
> bits of documentation in http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/HotCocoa  
> (which will be improved soon). It's still a work in progress, but it's  
> very promising, and also it's very simple to help by contributing  
> mappings.
> 
> - MacRuby is now using the Objective-C runtime to implement the Ruby  
> class semantics and also to dispatch Ruby methods. This is an  
> important change because it simplifies the core implementation a lot,  
> and also eliminate ambiguities between both worlds. Performance wise  
> we should be as performant as yarv, faster in some cases, slower in  
> others. There are still a few things I can do to improve them though.
> 
> - Interface Builder support. IB will automatically recognize classes,  
> outlets and actions that you implement in Xcode. I implemented a new  
> parser in MacRuby for that, based on ripper, and it should work with  
> both RubyCocoa and MacRuby files.
> 
> - Lots of bug fixes, especially regarding Ruby and Cocoa  
> compatibility. We are able to run RubyGems and LimeChat! And I ported  
> the PagePacker application to MacRuby (you can find it in the sample  
> code too), which uses many Cocoa features.
> 
> Please give it a test if you can!
> 
> $ svn co http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/ruby/MacRuby/branches/testing 
>   macruby-testing
> $ cd macruby-testing
> $ rake
> $ sudo rake install
> 
> Laurent
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