[MacRuby-devel] Extending MacRuby to platforms other than OSX?

[Eloy Duran]

Oops: s/i.e. iOS/e.g. iOS/ :)

On 25 jan 2011, at 18:59, Eloy Duran wrote:

> This is an outline of what I've *observed*:
> 
> 1. OS X is the focus
> 2. Core of MacRuby is written as portable as possible. For example, by using CoreFoundation making it possible to have someone port it by using CFLite.
> 3. For code that (currently) relies on OS X specific APIs, see point #1.
> 
> In a nutshell, if someone wants to port it to a different platform, i.e. iOS, by all means go ahead, it's OSS after all :) But for the current developers the focus is outlined in point #1.
> 
> HTH
> 
> On 25 jan 2011, at 18:29, Gary Weaver wrote:
> 
>> Not trying to be a downer, because I really like the idea of it being more accessible, but:
>> 
>> Looks like no recent activity on PureFoundation:
>> https://code.google.com/p/purefoundation/
>> http://www.puredarwin.org/purefoundation
>> 
>> Some activity 3 months ago on opencflite, which there was claim that PureFoundation might move to:
>> http://opencflite.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opencflite/
>> 
>> I don't get the feeling that these projects are active enough and have enough behind them to get distracted from focusing on OS X, but maybe their developers are just not committing code frequently?
>> 
>> MacRuby on iOS would be neat, but from what I've read on the list, it isn't happening anytime soon.
>> 
>> Personally, I'm still hoping that someone picks up HotCocoa, but from what I hear, the guys need to stayed focus on OS X, until more developers start helping out.
>> 
>> I noticed a few projects for Posix and Ruby and CFLite and Ruby, if you google for it. Might not be what people need, but worth mentioning.
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/25/11 12:05 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> First of all I think MacRuby is amazing project, and one and only Ruby runtime/compiler (macrubyc) that is able to produce standalone self-contained binaries. Since I have used Ruby heavily to produce server-side applications rather than Cocoa based application and I am iPhone developer as well, I wish to ask if and what are the plans for extending MacRuby to other platforms like:
>>> 
>>> (1) iOS - here I know the basic problem is lack of Obj-C GC. I've seen some post you're working on it, any clues about that?
>>> 
>>> (2) any UNIX (POSIX) platforms (Linux servers) - most of tech MacRuby relays on is OpenSource including LLVM, Obj-C runtime... most except Foundation framework is closed-source and exists only on OSX, however there's CFLite and there were couple of tries to port Foundation to generic UNIX (POSIX), one of them is PureFoundation.
>>> 
>>> Do you guys considered stripped down MacRuby version for any POSIX OS where Array, String and some core classes use some alternative implementation of Foundation or Foundation-free implementation?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>> 
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