[MacRuby-devel] Hotcocoa documentation

Michael Sokol mikaa123 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 05:48:02 PDT 2010


Thank you for the answer, I feel a bit disappointed though... I loved the
simplicity of Hotcocoa.

Is there any other library/layer on top of Macruby that helps simplifying
the creation of UI?

Michael

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Felix Holmgren <felix.holmgren at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok, interesting to hear at least that it wasn't deemed unworkable or
> somehow a faulty approach.
>
> /F
>
> 2010/10/2 Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Is there some information somewhere about why Hotcocoa was dropped? If
> >> not, a few words of explanation here would be appreciated! Hotcocoa
> >> does stand out as a pretty nifty gadget, although I can imagine it's a
> >> lot of work to maintain it.
> >
> >
> > I don't think there's information about it anywhere, but only because
> there's nothing much to say.
> >
> > HotCocoa was started by Rich Kilmer, and I can't speak for him but from
> what I saw he's very busy and doesn't have time to work on HotCocoa. In fact
> most of the work he did on HotCocoa was done when he was attending various
> conferences.
> >
> > And well after Rich stopped working on it no one decided to continue
> working on it, that's pretty much it. As Laurent said it's opensource, it's
> on Github so if anyone wants to work on it, just fork it!
> >
> > There was a time when HotCocoa was included in MacRuby, but there's no
> reason to continue including something that's not maintained anymore, and
> there's already enough work to do on MacRuby itself.
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