[MacRuby-devel] hotcocoa virus

Vincenzo Piombo vipenzo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 09:59:41 PDT 2011


Ok, thanks a lot, Gary: I will try them.

So no "official" repository is going to be put up ?

Enzo

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu> wrote:

>  Enzo,
>
> What I meant is that there are various versions of HotCocoa on GitHub. You
> might want to try someone's repo that was updated more recently. The
> "official"/original version ( https://github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa ) is
> probably the one you are using, but you can find a more recent one with
> patches, etc. by looking at its network in GitHub:
> https://github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa/network
>
> for example, some more recent versions at time of writing are:
> https://github.com/gmanley/hotcocoa
> https://github.com/jamis/hotcocoa
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On 3/30/11 5:32 PM, Vincenzo Piombo wrote:
>
> Gary,
> "Virus" was joke of course, however I changed the name on gist.
> I doubt it is a hotcocoa issue, but as soon as I have some time will try to
> replicate it with an IB version.
>
>  What do you mean by "where you got it" ?  The code is mine, I was trying
> to do something along the lines of this
> http://www.nongnu.org/gstutorial/en/ch13s04.html.
>
>
>  By the way, do you know where can I find a working drag&drop macruby
> example ?
>
>  Enzo
>
>  On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Enzo,
>>
>> It might be a translation issue, but I wouldn't call that a virus (it
>> doesn't replicate, it is just something that freezes your computer). I
>> wouldn't call it "Virus" in the gist either, if I were you.
>>
>> If it is a bug in HotCocoa, than it may be a bug (or at least undesired
>> functionality if it freezes your Mac) in MacRuby or OS X, so you might want
>> to dig deeper and provide more info on version (and where you got it, since
>> it is in various places in GitHub) of HotCocoa.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>  Gary
>>
>>
>> On 3/29/11 5:27 PM, Vincenzo Piombo wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>  I was trying to add drag & drop capabilities to a hotcocoa program and
>> stumbled into a problem that really puzzles me: a macruby program can freeze
>> your mac !
>>
>>  I uploaded the buggy fragment here: https://gist.github.com/893300
>>
>>  Don't run it unless you are prepared to reboot your machine the hard
>> way, don't even "Force quit" works.
>> In the instructions I say to launch it twice, but every drag & drop with
>> any app  after the crash freezes the app.
>>
>>
>>  I'm using macruby 0.9, tried 0.10 but hotcocoa does not work with it
>> (but this is another story !)
>>
>>  Hope someone can tell me if I did something wrong or found a bug
>> somewhere.
>>
>>  Enzp
>>
>>
>>
>>
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