Thanks for your feedback... On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. wrote: > > Hi "S",
Point taken :) >> Would a newbie list be worth creating? > > I would encourage you to just go ahead and ask on this list, for several > reasons: > > a) The people who would answer are here, so they may as well answer That's what someone says every time somebody else suggests forking a list. I hope it's the right answer because a lot of my questions would be off topic both on this list and the Cocoa Developers list. > b) It could be a bug, in which case it belongs here Yeah, but at this point, I think many of us can tell when it's our own fault :) > c) It helps us understand usage issues, which may inform features and > documentation Again, point taken. > The more interesting question to me is when do we create a macruby-users list > for those using the "stable" version -- or move development OF macruby to a > "macruby-core"? > > I guess it depends on when MacRuby is stable enough and popular enough. At > any rate, it isn't yet. > > -enp > > > On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:21 AM, s.ross wrote: > >> There are a number of questions I know I have coming from a Ruby/Rails and >> not a Cocoa background. These questions can be difficult to answer in the >> context of Objective-C (and heck, Ruby makes a lot of the Objective-C >> syntactic vinegar just go away). They are also not specifically about >> MacRuby, but rather about how it interacts with the framework. >> >> Because MacRuby can open up Cocoa to developers who really didn't want to >> mess around with [[obj alloc] init] and all that stuff. Many of you on this >> list did go through that learning experience but have already answered these >> same questions before in a different context but shouldn't be imposed upon >> to answer them again. Would a newbie list be worth creating? I find myself >> coming up with seemingly stupid questions that I simply don't want to >> trouble the list with but that take hours to dig out of the documentation. >> That would be the proposed purpose. Post some code, expected results, and >> what's actually happening. >> >> Maybe an example: I want a single pane Core Data application but I forgot to >> select the template that creates an appDelegate. How do I get a >> managedObject context and how do I add some seed data to that collection >> once it's bound to an NSTableView. See? Complicated n00b question that >> requires IB steps and Ruby steps. Takes quite a bit of trekking around in >> the documentation to figure out. But someone who's walked the same path >> before could answer it right away. >> >> Comments? >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
