[MacRuby-devel] Cocoa Framework compatibility

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi,

On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Paul wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I was curious about framework compatibility with MacRuby, from what  
> I've tried so far and seen on other people's blog posts only  
> frameworks built against the 32/64 bit Universal Architecture (with  
> gc support) are compatible with MacRuby is that pretty much the  
> restriction?

Yes.

The "gc support" one might be dropped in the near future, though. I  
plan to write an alternative (simple) GC based on the retain/release/ 
autorelease model, so that MacRuby can run within a process that does  
not support the ObjC GC.

> Thanks!
>
> ps. I am really really loving MacRuby

Thanks for the kind words!

Laurent