wxruby development - Dec 2006 - 0.0.38 tag and release

Hi

I tagged 0.0.38 and started a release on rubyforge. I''ll do the doc 
packages & upload plus gems for OS X ppc and Linux; TIA for gems for 
Windows and OS X Intel - please upload whenever convenient.

Once we have a set of binary gems, I suggest we do an announce to 
wxruby-users and c.l.r, inc explaining this is still alpha, summarising 
the new features, and that people should use GC.disable as a temp 
workaround on Windows.

Of course it would be nice if this release were more brilliant, but I''m
happy it''s an substantial advance on what''s currently
available. From
the lists I''m sensing a buzz of interest again about wxruby, so worth 
building on that.

I''m wondering if we should add a TODO in the annoucement? My thoughts 
for 0.0.39 are:

- fix the memory crashers with Bitmap and classes that use it 
(BitmapButton, ImageList, Icon etc). After some work on Weft I''m 
wondering if these are responsible for a good chunk of problems. 
Unfortunately I don''t think the solution is as simple as just using 
DISOWN - but I''d be interested to hear what you think. I''m
planning to
try and fix this stuff using %markfunc so it works flexibly with ruby''s
GC

- Add Scintilla for Linux - Roy, sorry, this patch just dropped off my 
screen. It''s compiling fine but just not appearing in bigdemo.
Hopefully
something simple.

- Have another go at DataObject using a C++ subclass...

- Try and nail some of the platform bugs (ScrolledWindow on MSW, 
KeyEvent on OS X etc)

We seem to be in the sweet position of having very few GUI wx classes 
left to port. Apart from Clipboard the ones that are left seem mostly 
(for implementation reasons - eg DatePickerCtrl) to be more trouble than 
they are worth right now, and less impt than getting a stable beta/final 2.0

all the best
alex

OS X Intel version is now uploaded.

Good work Alex, this release was pretty much all you!

Sean

On 12/13/06, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tagged 0.0.38 and started a release on rubyforge. I''ll do the
doc
> packages & upload plus gems for OS X ppc and Linux; TIA for gems for
> Windows and OS X Intel - please upload whenever convenient.
>
> Once we have a set of binary gems, I suggest we do an announce to
> wxruby-users and c.l.r, inc explaining this is still alpha, summarising
> the new features, and that people should use GC.disable as a temp
> workaround on Windows.
>
> Of course it would be nice if this release were more brilliant, but
I''m
> happy it''s an substantial advance on what''s currently
available. From
> the lists I''m sensing a buzz of interest again about wxruby, so
worth
> building on that.
>
> I''m wondering if we should add a TODO in the annoucement? My
thoughts
> for 0.0.39 are:
>
> - fix the memory crashers with Bitmap and classes that use it
> (BitmapButton, ImageList, Icon etc). After some work on Weft I''m
> wondering if these are responsible for a good chunk of problems.
> Unfortunately I don''t think the solution is as simple as just
using
> DISOWN - but I''d be interested to hear what you think.
I''m planning to
> try and fix this stuff using %markfunc so it works flexibly with
ruby''s GC
>
> - Add Scintilla for Linux - Roy, sorry, this patch just dropped off my
> screen. It''s compiling fine but just not appearing in bigdemo.
Hopefully
> something simple.
>
> - Have another go at DataObject using a C++ subclass...
>
> - Try and nail some of the platform bugs (ScrolledWindow on MSW,
> KeyEvent on OS X etc)
>
> We seem to be in the sweet position of having very few GUI wx classes
> left to port. Apart from Clipboard the ones that are left seem mostly
> (for implementation reasons - eg DatePickerCtrl) to be more trouble than
> they are worth right now, and less impt than getting a stable beta/final
2.0
>
> all the best
> alex
>
>
>
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