Re: [MacRuby-devel] Cocoa Framework compatibility

2009-06-09 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi, On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Paul wrote: Hey folks, I was curious about framework compatibility with MacRuby, from what I've tried so far and seen on other people's blog posts only frameworks built against the 32/64 bit Universal Architecture (with gc support) are compatible with MacR

[MacRuby-devel] Cocoa Framework compatibility

2009-06-09 Thread Paul
Hey folks, I was curious about framework compatibility with MacRuby, from what I've tried so far and seen on other people's blog posts only frameworks built against the 32/64 bit Universal Architecture (with gc support) are compatible with MacRuby is that pretty much the restriction? Thanks! ps.

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Rich Morin
Thanks to all for the responses. I'm happy to hear that this is a plausible notion and that appropriate folks are thinking about it. :) -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdmRich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Techni

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Rich Morin wrote: It's also pretty clear that any first-class development language on Mac OS X, going forward, will have to support this. Ruby has all sorts of block-based goodness already and Laurent is busily i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Rich Morin wrote: It's also pretty clear that any first-class development language on Mac OS X, going forward, will have to support this. Ruby has all sorts of block-based goodness already and Laurent is busily implementing JIT for MacRuby, so I speculate that GCD m

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.
Hi Rich, On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Rich Morin wrote: Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's proposed technology for making concurrent programming easier and safer. It looks pretty cool, as far as I can tell from the somewhat fluffy discussion here: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/G

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Chuck Remes
The Grand Central stuff is using the new block syntax introduced for Obj-C 2.0. That has been discussed publicly so it is no longer embargoed under NDA. Any ruby implementation would likely build on the obj-c block syntax, so that is safe to discuss. How it would specifically tie in to the

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Rich, I believe (but I'm not sure) that Grand Central Dispatch as well as a Snow Leopard are technologies under NDA and can't be discussed publicly on the mailing list. I'm not in the know and can only speculate. My guess is that MacRuby will eventually take advantage of GCD but I'm afraid, we wi

[MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

2009-06-09 Thread Rich Morin
Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's proposed technology for making concurrent programming easier and safer. It looks pretty cool, as far as I can tell from the somewhat fluffy discussion here: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090608.pdf It's also pretty clear