Oops: s/i.e. iOS/e.g. iOS/ :) On 25 jan 2011, at 18:59, Eloy Duran wrote:
> This is an outline of what I've *observed*: > > 1. OS X is the focus > 2. Core of MacRuby is written as portable as possible. For example, by using > CoreFoundation making it possible to have someone port it by using CFLite. > 3. For code that (currently) relies on OS X specific APIs, see point #1. > > In a nutshell, if someone wants to port it to a different platform, i.e. iOS, > by all means go ahead, it's OSS after all :) But for the current developers > the focus is outlined in point #1. > > HTH > > On 25 jan 2011, at 18:29, Gary Weaver wrote: > >> Not trying to be a downer, because I really like the idea of it being more >> accessible, but: >> >> Looks like no recent activity on PureFoundation: >> https://code.google.com/p/purefoundation/ >> http://www.puredarwin.org/purefoundation >> >> Some activity 3 months ago on opencflite, which there was claim that >> PureFoundation might move to: >> http://opencflite.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opencflite/ >> >> I don't get the feeling that these projects are active enough and have >> enough behind them to get distracted from focusing on OS X, but maybe their >> developers are just not committing code frequently? >> >> MacRuby on iOS would be neat, but from what I've read on the list, it isn't >> happening anytime soon. >> >> Personally, I'm still hoping that someone picks up HotCocoa, but from what I >> hear, the guys need to stayed focus on OS X, until more developers start >> helping out. >> >> I noticed a few projects for Posix and Ruby and CFLite and Ruby, if you >> google for it. Might not be what people need, but worth mentioning. >> >> >> On 1/25/11 12:05 PM, Adam Strzelecki wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> First of all I think MacRuby is amazing project, and one and only Ruby >>> runtime/compiler (macrubyc) that is able to produce standalone >>> self-contained binaries. Since I have used Ruby heavily to produce >>> server-side applications rather than Cocoa based application and I am >>> iPhone developer as well, I wish to ask if and what are the plans for >>> extending MacRuby to other platforms like: >>> >>> (1) iOS - here I know the basic problem is lack of Obj-C GC. I've seen some >>> post you're working on it, any clues about that? >>> >>> (2) any UNIX (POSIX) platforms (Linux servers) - most of tech MacRuby >>> relays on is OpenSource including LLVM, Obj-C runtime... most except >>> Foundation framework is closed-source and exists only on OSX, however >>> there's CFLite and there were couple of tries to port Foundation to generic >>> UNIX (POSIX), one of them is PureFoundation. >>> >>> Do you guys considered stripped down MacRuby version for any POSIX OS where >>> Array, String and some core classes use some alternative implementation of >>> Foundation or Foundation-free implementation? >>> >>> Regards, >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
