Re: [MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-10 Thread steve ross
On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > > Guys, this isn't the right place to discuss this, I'm afraid. I recommend > using an official channel such as the Apple Developer Relations. > > Thanks :-) > > Laurent I understand and respect your perspective, but when a developer mak

Re: [MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-10 Thread Rich Morin
At 1:20 AM -0700 4/10/10, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Guys, this isn't the right place to discuss this, I'm afraid. I > recommend using an official channel such as the Apple Developer > Relations. > > Thanks :-) Not surprisingly, I disagree. The "official channel" does not offer a forum in which

Re: [MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-10 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Guys, this isn't the right place to discuss this, I'm afraid. I recommend using an official channel such as the Apple Developer Relations. Thanks :-) Laurent On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:16 PM, steve ross wrote: > I don't know whether anyone will provide a rationale for the contract > language, but

Re: [MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-09 Thread steve ross
I don't know whether anyone will provide a rationale for the contract language, but here's an interesting analysis of it: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331 Apple makes a lot of smart calls that seem stupid or selfish at first. A number of folks on Twitter have jump

Re: [MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Winter
Hi, I asked the same question via Twitter, however I do not expect to get an answer at this stage. If my understanding is correct about why Apple has done this, in that it is more due to "the need to support the new multitasking APIs in iPhone 4.0. The system will now be evaluating apps as the

[MacRuby-devel] political rumination

2010-04-09 Thread Rich Morin
I suspect that no Apple employee will be able to comment on this, but I _really_ hope MacRuby will be among the blessed languages for the iPad, etc. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdmRich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7