[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby & MountainLion + what you can do to help the project

[James Chen]

Matt,

Great and excited to hear all these!

Regarding Xcode template support, dropping update < Xcode 4.3 would not be
a big issue. For 4.2 or lower the current template can be used.

Can't wait to see 0.11 and other updates!

Thanks a lot!

James

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> A few of you asked me privately and publicly what was going on with
> MacRuby releases and what was the plan now that Apple clearly said that ARC
> is the future and that the GC will be deprecated in MountainLion.
>
> First off, I want to emphasis that even though ARC is the future for iOS
> and OS X, the GC won't go away anytime soon. In other words, MacRuby runs
> on MountainLion, so there is no real rush. But we need a plan and that plan
> probably means not using the GC anymore :p
>
> Regarding MacRuby's releases, Laurent promised to push 0.11 and well, we
> are waiting on him but it should happen any day now<https://twitter.com/lrz/status/170464894154584064>;)
>
> Allan Delacruz, a designer friend of the project did a redesign of the
> site but we need some help to rebase and polish the content.
> Volunteers please stand up, Allan's branch is there:
> https://github.com/AllanD/MacRubyWebsite  Maybe someone can find some
> time over President's day to give us an updated website? Don't hesitate to
> email the mailing list about that.
>
> Xcode 4.3 It was reported that because Xcode is now a normal app, our
> templates aren't installed in the right place. We need a few volunteers to
> modify/test our installer to support the older and the newer Xcode. Or
> maybe we can just agree to only support the latest Xcode version (thoughts?)
>
> Extra ideas for volunteers:
>
>    - Changelog for 0.11 release, let's help Laurent writing the release
>    blog post by giving him a summarized changelog
>    - Sublime Text 2 http://www.sublimetext.com/ is the new TextMate and I
>    quickly looked at it and adding MacRuby support seems really
>    straightforward (requires some Python scripting but hey, that's better than
>    dealing with AppleScript :p). My challenge to you is to offer a
>    MacRuby/Cocoa package.
>    - Organize the various samples we have and add them to the website.
>    - Update the tutorials (linking to the online version of my book is
>    fine but original stuff should be encouraged, especially what I missed in
>    the book)
>    - Document the MacRuby internals and help new devs contribute feature
>    and fix bugs.
>
> Summary: the sky isn't falling, we are all good but we need help and we
> need to grow the team of active contributors. Tell us what you are
> interested in helping with and let's get organized to push MacRuby to the
> next level.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Matt
>
>
>
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