[MacRuby-devel] Hotcocoa or not?

Buddy Lindsey, Jr. percent20 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 11:22:02 PST 2011


Ahh, okay. I think i'll proceed with doing it the regular way.

I was actually hoping to submit to the Mac AppStore. I hope they allow on
there if it is a self contained app.

Thanks for the reply
Buddy

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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Thibault Martin-Lagardette <thibault.ml@
gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Buddy,
>
> I would advise to use the "regular" way, aka using Xcode, Interface Builder
> etc.
> I could think of two reasons for that:
> 1/ HotCocoa is, as far as I know, not maintained anymore
> 2/ By using Interface Builder, you'll learn more about writing Cocoa apps,
> wether it is in MacRuby or Objective-C :-)
>
> However, please be aware that as of today, it is not possible to submit, on
> the AppStore (the iOS AppStore), an application that has been written using
> MacRuby :-(.
> Sincerely,
> --
> Thibault Martin-Lagardette
>
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2011, at 05:09, Buddy Lindsey, Jr. wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am just starting with MacRuby and am kind of confused. There seems to be
> 2 ways to do GUI development. Hotcocoa or Pure Cocoa API. My confusion is on
> which one is best I like hotcocoa because it seems fairly straight forward
> on doing GUI stuff, the little I have looked at it, but seems to rely on
> Cocoa API where there aren't any mappings. However, I can use interface
> builder and xcode more easily going with the pure cocoa api. I also am very
> confused when doing anything with interface builder so I am leaning toward
> hotcocoa.
>
> As a note on my background. I just got my first mac in July and started
> doing anything with ruby [on rails] in August. I come from a web development
> background so desktop apps are a bit new to me.
>
> Anyone have any advice, comments, and or words of wisdom all they way
> around? My goals is to make a fairly simple app I can put into the AppStore.
>
> Thanks
> Buddy
>
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