IMHO MacRuby and now Rubymotion apps deployment is really reasy. To create a release version of a .app in RubyMotion you just "rake release" and you're done.
For cross-platform development with Qt, Tk or wx, the situation in Python has always been better than in Ruby. I don't know how we'll maintained the ruby bindings for each of those GUI toolkits are, but packaging and deployment of such apps has always been a pain even in Python. I don't know if a toolkit-indepented ruby2app library would be the solution. Too many differences between them. If only each of the bindings had nice a packing workflow for each OS... On Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 5/16/13 2:38 PM, Mark Villacampa wrote: > > > > The momentum around MacRuby has been inexistent for almost a year and a > > half. That is, since Laurent Sansonetti (the original creator of > > MacRuby) left Apple, and that left the project without maintainers who > > were being paid to work on it. Only Watson and a couple other > > maintainers have been doing maintenance work and fixing a couple of bugs. > > > > Since nobody is being paid to maintain it, and (AFAIK) there is no > > company/individual whose main/critical systems depended on MacRuby, > > nobody has taken over the project. This is pretty much a chicken-egg > > situation. > > > > > It's unfortunate that MacRuby is suffering from bit-rot, but it was not > an optimal solution for desktop development in any event. It was > incompatible with standard Ruby in subtle ways, and was an incomplete > implementation. > > Standard Ruby has nice bindings to several UI toolkits (Qt, Tk, wx) and > can access Cocoa API's via Tim Burks' under-documented rubyobjc module, > but it too has problems for desktop apps. Everything kind of falls apart > when you look for available deployment tools outside of those that are > tightly bound to RubyCocoa or MacRuby (i.e. standaloneify). > > It would be really great if someone could put together ruby2app (Ruby > version of py2app) in a way that would work with any Ruby libraries, not > just Cocoa ones. But I'm not going to hold my breath. > > --Kevin > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org (mailto:MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org) > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macruby-devel > >
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