[MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Matt Aimonetti
*Many of you have been wondering what is going on with the MacRuby project given the lack of up-to-date releases and overall communication. I feel we owe you some explanation. As a lot of you have noticed, our de-facto project leader Laurent Sansonetti has been M.I.A since October 2011, his last p

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Scott Ribe
On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > • the target platform (OS X) isn't the one we all really want to target > (iOS) The target platform is only 1 of 2 that many of us really want to target? -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Absolutely, thanks for clarifying my poorly worded statement. - Matt On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Scott Ribe wrote: > On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > > > • the target platform (OS X) isn't the one we all really want to > target (iOS) > > The target platform is only

[MacRuby-devel] Re The Future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Dan Farrand
I am not a a contributor to MacRuby, but I have been interested in using it. Without Apple sponsorship, I have very little interest in MacRuby. Without commitment and support from Apple, it will be a never ending scramble to just keep up with niggling changes to xcode, cocoa and the build proce

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Mark Rada
Opening the flood gates to new contributors sounds great. I have been having less and less free time as of late and haven't been able to keep up with the few things I do to contribute. Watson has been carrying the project almost entirely by himself for the last few months. MacRuby is a large pro

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Westendorf
Wow, lots of news there. Thanks for the explanation Matt. I created a quick survey to help quantify and gauge how the community feels. Please fill it out. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/J5JLMFT Daniel On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > *Many of you have been wondering what

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Douglas Tykocki
Personally, I want to see this project succeed like Rubinus and JRuby has, but is it possible without some support from Apple? That said, I would love to help out with building sample apps, docs, and building some gems. What helped me the most when learning to develop on iOS was the availability of

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread az...@gmx.net
Thanks for the update Matt. I haven't actually used MacRuby since my last app, although would love to see it for iOS (as well as keeping OS X support). I guess that would get a lot more people interested too, given the success and popularity of the iOS platform. I think most of your other sugge

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Marcos Villacampa
Thanks for all the info Matt. As a very new member of the MacRuby community, I don't feel like I have the right to decide about it's future, but here are some of the things that I think would help MacRuby create enough "hype" and get a lot more attention from developers: - Add the necessary mo

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Re The Future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Dan Farrand wrote: > I am not a a contributor to MacRuby, but I have been interested in using it. > Without Apple sponsorship, I have very little interest in MacRuby. I think Matt has already said all that needs to be said on that subject. There are many applicati

Re: [MacRuby-devel] The future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Chong Francis
Thank you for your update. It's sad that Apple seems abandon the MacRuby project, but this is also a chance to bring MacRuby closer to what we (as developers and users) need instead of what Apple want. I certainly agree that removing libauto is a primary goal, as OSX and iOS are both going to

[MacRuby-devel] Re The Future of MacRuby

2012-04-05 Thread Tim Rand
ke the vision that Matt is > proposing, by all means follow him. If you don't, github also supports any > number of possible forks, the word "fork" no longer having the somewhat > pejorative meaning it once had, either, but rather representing the > opportunity