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 <mattaimone...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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