Laurent Sansonetti
lsans****@apple*****
Fri Aug 11 04:48:56 JST 2006
Hi guys, So I am right now at WWDC, along with Hisa-san, and we have been discussing about things. First of all, but this should not be a surprise for you, RubyCocoa is bundled with Leopard. Apple is committed to make the bridge as stable as possible and support it in future releases of the OS. The key idea is to leverage Ruby at the same level of support as ObjC, providing everything to make developers happy to write full Cocoa-based applications in Ruby (this includes documentation, tutorials, integration with the Apple developer tools, etc...). Another thing that has been announced is the macosforge.org website. This is a community effort to host MacOS-related projects that has been created after the opendarwin.org shutdown. It provides SVN, trac, web hosting, shell access, and the possibility to compile for different architectures. We will have several Xserve machines to host everything. Recently Jonathan converted the CVS repository to SVN which is great. Note that it's just a suggestion; we have this website, it has all the things we need (if we need more things this is also possible to install more stuff); it should be way faster than SF.net. If all of you would like to move to macosforge.org it's fully possible. Finally, there is this "apple-unstable" branch. The version of RubyCocoa in Leopard has been produced from this branch. I think it would be great to start merging the content of this branch into trunk. I have a long list of things in my TODO list for RubyCocoa that I will work on in the next weeks (I will BTW write an e-mail about this soon). I propose that we either merge changes from apple-unstable into trunk, or that we rename apple-unstable into trunk (and rename trunk into something else). Having 2 different branches is a mess to maintain, I am not against having a stable and unstable branch though. Any idea about solving this? Thanks! Laurent
