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

[James Chen]

Yes Matt, I'm definitely willing to help. I will have a look later.

James

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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