[MacRuby-devel] Renaming the MacRuby project

[Bryan Harrison]

What, no iRuby?  


On Apr 3, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Ben Rimmington wrote:

> I'm an iOS developer, and I haven't tried MacRuby yet, but it appears to be a good alternative to Objective-C.
> 
> Assuming that MacRuby will be used on iOS devices in the future, perhaps the framework (and project) should be renamed before the v1.0 release. Some alternatives are:
> 
> * AppleRuby.framework
> * CoreRuby.framework
> * HotRuby.framework (if HotCocoa is popular)
> * Ruby.framework (in Versions/?? subfolder)
> * RubyBridge.framework
> * RubyCocoa.framework (in Versions/B subfolder)
> * RubyFoundation.framework
> * RubyKit.framework
> 
> Since you've recently moved to GitHub, and your "MacRuby: The Definitive Guide" book is probably nearing completion, I don't think this is likely to happen. But I thought it was worth suggesting, because choosing to rename after v1.0 (e.g. "iPhone OS 3.x" to "iOS 4") is worse.
> 
> Cheers.