+1, great job!! On 2011/10/14, at 13:53, Mark Rada wrote:
> Hey all, > > I have some wonderful news. Over the past several months I've been working on > a fork of HotCocoa. With the help of other contributors (Watson, Isaac, Jake, > Bernard, Francesco, Jason, and all the past contributors), it is now time for > a new release of HotCocoa. The best part is that it will be an official > release, with rubygems and everything! > > You can install it from rubygems right now: > > sudo macgem install hotcocoa > > It is recommended that you use MacRuby 0.11, but MacRuby 0.10 should still > work. > > For those of you who don't know, HotCocoa is a MacRuby library that aims to > simply the creation and configuration of Cocoa objects when creating Mac > apps. You can use it inside of an existing MacRuby Xcode project, but > HotCocoa includes tools to heelp you build applications entirely without > Xcode. The source is currently hosted on Github at: > > https://github.com/ferrous26/hotcocoa > > > The source includes the point form list of changes since HotCocoa 0.5, but > I've included a long form of the changes for interested parties: > > * New application builder to work with MacRuby 0.10+ > > The old application builder had statically set itself to compile 32/64-bit > fat binaries, and when MacRuby deprecated 32-bit support this begin causing > some problems. The old application builder has been fixed and refactored, but > it has also been deprecated in favour of a new application builder that works > with appspecs. > > * New application templates now use an appspec, similar to a gemspec > > An appspec is much easier to use and much more flexible than the old > config.yml file. It is a ruby object, just like a gemspec, and can be much > more dynamic. It also offers quite a few more configuration options than > config.yml. Appspec is the future, and config.yml is now deprecated. You can > learn more about appspecs from the documentation: > http://rdoc.info/github/ferrous26/hotcocoa/master/Application/Specification, > or from the template file: > https://github.com/ferrous26/hotcocoa/blob/master/template/__APPLICATION_NAME__.appspec. > > We are also looking for feedback regarding the new appspec format, there is > still a lot of room for growing and maturing and community feedback will help > guide the process. > > * Lazier loading for mappings (may break custom mappings!) > > HotCocoa used to load the all mappings and simply not evaluate them until > the requisite framework was loaded; HotCocoa now evaluates the mapping right > away but does not load the mapping until the requisite framework is loaded. > This was done to simplify the code base, and it will lower the memory foot > print for most apps as more mappings are added to HotCocoa. The trade off is > that you will need to be responsible for loading your custom mappings > yourself, which you were probably already doing. > > * API documention (~67% coverage so far) > > API documentation is an ongoing effort, but most of the important pieces have > helpful comments that should make learning/using HotCocoa easier. You can > view it online: http://rdoc.info/github/ferrous26/hotcocoa/master/frames > > * Regression tests (< 67% coverage so far) > > Also an ongoing effort, coverage is not great, but its not bad either. The > example apps are still tested out between non trivial changes. > > * Updating and porting of the tutorial documentation (~40% complete) > > Along with the API documentation, you will see that some of the HotCocoa > documentation from the MacRuby website has been ported and updated. It is > important to note that you should refer to the updated version of the > documentation if it is available. > > * HotCocoa now works when compiled > > You can use the rubygems-compile gem to compile HotCocoa successfully. When > compiled, HotCocoa will load at least ~2.5 times faster, but as much as ~5 > times faster. > > * HotCocoa is now leaner > > Various small optimizations and refactorings have gone into HotCocoa 0.6; > this is also an ongoing effort. Faster boot and run times is a long term goal. > > * Various bug fixes > > A few bugs were squashed during the refactoring. Not all of which were > implemented by myself, so HotCocoa should be more stable than ever. :) > > * 4 new mappings: > * bonjour_service => NSNetService > * bonjour_browser => NSNetServiceBrowser > * line => NSBezierPath > * tracking_area => NSTrackingArea > > * 2 graphics improvements: > * Image class works with more image types (BMP, JPEG2000) > * Image class can save images > > > But there is still a lot more that can be done for the future; HotCocoa is a > very ambitious project: > > - Cocoa Auto Layout > - HotCocoa-Graphics update > - Improvements to the tools, specifically project management, > configuration, and testing > - More test coverage for HotCocoa > - More API documentation > - Port the remaining documents and tutorials > - And more! > > > Cheers, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel --- TAKAO Kouji <ko...@takao7.net> blog: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kouji0625/ twitter: takaokouji / projects: ruby, s7-seven _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
