I agree, it’s too bad that people can’t just work for free as much as they would like on the stuff they love.
Now it is true that Laurent himself has not touched the repo since that email you linked to, but you know just as well as me that Watson has been doing maintenance work on MacRuby while on the payroll of RubyMotion (HipByte). His latest commit was 15 days ago and here’s a generalised diff of all the work done since the email: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/compare/94c90b351c18ce1f5....
This is what people with limited time resources do, they delegate.
To conclude, when you’re out to paint someone black, you really should be more specific. As it stands, there are no lies in that email, which means that you are the one that is not telling the truth. I’m not sure why you want to spread FUD, but it’s quite obvious and really does not make you look professional.
PS: Whatever Apple chose or chooses to do has absolutely no relevancy to this at all. The moment they released it as Open-Source, they effectively said that people can do what they want as long as they follow the license.
Alloy my point was not about maintenance but the fact that MacRuby relies on the ObjC GC which is now deprecated.
In this email thread Laurent acknowledge the need to switch to static compilation and that he has a working branch he will soon merge.
This is exactly what RubyMotion just released and I'm saddened that it was not contributed back as promised.
Well, spoking of broken promises and people abandoning things, didn't you write a book on MacRuby and a couple of articles touting it, and then abandoned the project for greener pastures (Ruby, Go and such)?
What about the folks that bought into the book and MacRuby, thinking that it was a viable project, and then see you, one of the (few) main contributors abandon it -- and long before today's release of RubyMotion.
I agree, it’s too bad that people can’t just work for free as much as they would like on the stuff they love.
Now it is true that Laurent himself has not touched the repo since that email you linked to, but you know just as well as me that Watson has been doing maintenance work on MacRuby while on the payroll of RubyMotion (HipByte). His latest commit was 15 days ago and here’s a generalised diff of all the work done since the email: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/compare/94c90b351c18ce1f5....
This is what people with limited time resources do, they delegate.
To conclude, when you’re out to paint someone black, you really should be more specific. As it stands, there are no lies in that email, which means that you are the one that is not telling the truth. I’m not sure why you want to spread FUD, but it’s quite obvious and really does not make you look professional.
PS: Whatever Apple chose or chooses to do has absolutely no relevancy to this at all. The moment they released it as Open-Source, they effectively said that people can do what they want as long as they follow the license.