[MacRuby-devel] Cocoa Framework Compatibility

Public Farley publicfarley at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 07:47:04 PDT 2009


Hi Laurent,

Theoretically speaking. If, as you say, "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."

Does that open the gateway to iPhone development??

Farley
farleycaesar at me.com

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> 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?
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> Thanks!
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> ps. I am really really loving MacRuby
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> Paul
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> From: Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com>
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> Hi,
>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Paul wrote:
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>> 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
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> Thanks for the kind words!
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> Laurent
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