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 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 jumped on this contract language as a stupid > and/or selfish call. I just don't know. > > Steve Ross > > > On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Matthew Winter wrote: >> >> 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 they run in order to implement >> smart multitasking. It can't do this if apps are running within a runtime or >> are cross compiled with a foreign structure that doesn't behave identically >> to a native C/C++/Obj-C app." >> >> Then based on this, I see no reason why they should not let MacRuby be >> blessed as this essentially is making use of the same Objective-C runtime >> and API's. >> >> There are now quite a few ways to develop apps for the iPhone & iPad that do >> not involve Obj-C. I wonder if it is just the case of recompiling the base >> libraries or making the base libraries aware of Apple's multitasking needs, >> and then for each to be blessed by Apple, or am I being way to optimistic >> that this will happen. >> >> Regards >> Matthew Winter >> >> >> On 10/04/2010, at 11:37 AM, Rich Morin wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> -- > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
