Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #651: NSString#stringByDeletingPathExtension: not returning a String

2010-04-09 Thread MacRuby
#651: NSString#stringByDeletingPathExtension: not returning a String ---+ Reporter: koude...@… |Owner: lsansone...@… Type: defect | Status: closed

Re: [MacRuby-devel] are framework extern variables visible in Mac Ruby? (was: Re: how to access OpenDirectory C constants from MacRuby?)

2010-04-09 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Russell, Sorry for the late response. OpenDirectory.framework ships with BridgeSupport annotations, so doing "framework 'OpenDirectory'" should merge all symbols into MacRuby. If some are missing, it's likely a bug in the BridgeSupport generator, that should be reported via http://bugreport

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

2010-04-09 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Daniel, As Matt said, it is possible to trim out your .app bundle to only ship what's really needed. If you do not need the standard library and extensions, removing them might free some memory. I believe the min. size is about 20MB then (I'm not exactly certain though), for both 32-bit and

[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

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

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