[MacRuby-devel] Renaming the MacRuby project

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 11:07:06 PDT 2011


While there is nothing wrong with having this kind of discussion, I don't
think we are currently looking into changing the project's name ;)

- Matt



On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Johannes Fahrenkrug
<jfahrenkrug at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > MacRuby-devel mailing list
> > MacRuby-devel at lists.macosforge.org
> > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
> >
>
>
>
> --
> springenwerk.com | github.com/jfahrenkrug | twitter.com/jfahrenkrug
>
> Springenwerk Consulting
> Johannes Fahrenkrug
> Muehlenredder 21c, 24582 Bordesholm, Germany
> +49 (0)151 22 634 651
> _______________________________________________
> MacRuby-devel mailing list
> MacRuby-devel at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/attachments/20110403/4ec6e270/attachment.html>


More information about the MacRuby-devel mailing list