[MacRuby-devel] Renaming the MacRuby project

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

I like the name MacRuby :)
NSObject is also still called NSObject although NeXTStep hasn't been
around for a long time.

- Johannes

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Bryan Harrison <bryan at bryanharrison.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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