Hi Anthony,
On Feb 3, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Anthony Buck wrote:
Hi all,
I have a couple of questions which I have attempted to answer to
no-avail. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right
direction (Quite new to OS X development so my apologies if it is
mealy my incompetence that has lead me here.)
1) I am looking into using MacRuby and am interested in it's ability
to AOT compile ruby code down to an executable. I am wondering though
whether this places a restriction on the code in any way? Is there a
subset of ruby which is supported or can i go ahead and perform all
the meta-magic i want and still have the code AOT compiled?
Yes, the AOT compiler should fully support the Ruby language. If you
find something that does not work when compiled, it's a bug :) Please
report them and we will fix them.
2) I am also interested in targeting both 10.6 and 10.5 with any
applications developed (at 50%+ OS X share it is imposable to ignore
with any conscience.) I have looked at the deployment task shipped
with Mac Ruby and love the fact that I can have a simple .app to pass
on to my users however, am i right in thinking that this .app will
only operate on 10.6 machines? If so is there any way to develop
either a combined or separate .app which is useful to users of 10.5?
Is this possible when the development system is 10.6?
It is currently not possible, as explained in http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/354
. Note that this might be supported in a future release. We also
accept contributions :)
3) I also read an article about how the developer of Stopwatch*
packaged said application without the "standard library." am I right
in thinking that this is the ruby standard library which was left
unpackaged? Wouldn't this render the application un-runnable?
Yes, it is the Ruby standard library. If the application does not use
it there is no reason why removing it would cause a problem. In fact,
we recommend to prefer the Cocoa APIs over the Ruby standard library
when it is possible. Cocoa is much better designed and implemented.
Laurent
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