New RubyCocoa Release & BridgeSupport

By ghutchis at Wed, May 23 2007 1:53pm |

Yesterday, there was an updated release of RubyCocoa, 0.11.0 with quite a large set of release notes.

More interesting for MacResearch members may be the new BridgeSupport project, which appears designed to provide better support for scripting bridges to Objective-C, like RubyCocoa and PyObjC, although the project is independent of any scripting language.

BridgeSupport files are XML files that describe the API symbols of frameworks or libraries that cannot be introspected at runtime. These are generally ANSI C symbols that is, non-object-oriented items such as constants, enumerations, structures, and functions but can also include some additional information about Objective-C classes, methods, and informal protocols.

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Wed, 2007-05-23 16:13 — cgavini

major release

Thanks for the update on RubyCocoa. There seems to be a major update in the organization of the website with a new wiki as well. There is a new script that lets you redistribute your app without making your users install RubyCocoa it seems.

Bridgesupport also looks very interesting. There might be more interesting bridges created because of this project.

Wed, 2007-05-23 20:01 — ghutchis

Other bridges

As you say, BridgeSupport looks really interesting. I'm curious if it will mean a better Perl bridge through CamelBones.

That'd bring scripting support to AppleScript (via AppleScript Studio), Python, Ruby, and Perl. Pretty comprehensive list!