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

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 01:26:39 PST 2012


Thanks James, the templates didn't change in 4.3, but the location where
they live did.
Are you volunteering to update our installer to cover 4.3? ;)

Thanks in advance,

- Matt

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:12 AM, James Chen <ashchan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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