wxruby users - Mar 2004 - Minor update to wxRuby 0.2.1 for Mac

I just uploaded a slightly revised version of the Mac wxRuby 0.2.1, 
named 0.2.1b. which is "slightly" smaller than the first copy.
It''s
about 88% smaller, but has the same contents, so it seemed worth updating.

Thanks to Nick for figuring out the setting to shrink it, and for 
building a new version for us. The statistics no longer show how many 
people downloaded the original Mac file, but it has been quite popular.

By the way, about 100 people downloaded 0.2.1 within a couple days of 
its release. Hopefully we''ll continue to get bug reports and feature 
suggestions as everyone tries it out.

Cheers,

Kevin

> I just uploaded a slightly revised version of the Mac wxRuby 0.2.1, 
> named 0.2.1b. which is "slightly" smaller than the first copy.
It''s
> about 88% smaller, but has the same contents, so it seemed worth updating.
It''s amazing what the "compress" check box will do.

I would be interested in feedback on the wxruby Macintosh build. The 
things I plan to work on for 0.3 are

1) Moving to a framework or anything that will allow support of the 
wxMac resources (fixing the menubar problem).
2) Improved documentation for the Mac (on how to bundle an app, getting 
started, etc).

Things I am curious about are:

1) Support for wxCocoa. I haven''t seen a release for wxCocoa but it has
made a lot of improvements. Has anyone tried building wxruby against 
wxCocoa?
2) Getting started - any trouble? I tried to make the 0.2 release as 
unix-esque (no more ScrUI, command line friendly) as possible, but the 
menubar problem is a pain. Any other issues?
3) I made a sample application bundle for the 0.2 release, but I took it 
out when my disk image was 15 Mb (once again, the compress check box 
eludes me). I might post it on my website with some documentation on the 
wiki. Would anybody be interested?

Thats all from the Mac front.

Nick



Kevin Smith wrote:
> I just uploaded a slightly revised version of the Mac wxRuby 0.2.1, 
> named 0.2.1b. which is "slightly" smaller than the first copy.
It''s
> about 88% smaller, but has the same contents, so it seemed worth 
> updating.
>
> Thanks to Nick for figuring out the setting to shrink it, and for 
> building a new version for us. The statistics no longer show how many 
> people downloaded the original Mac file, but it has been quite popular.
>
> By the way, about 100 people downloaded 0.2.1 within a couple days of 
> its release. Hopefully we''ll continue to get bug reports and
feature
> suggestions as everyone tries it out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin
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