wxruby users - Sep 2006 - One step forward, one step back

Doing some comparison to older builds of wxRuby2 I see that some things 
work better now and some worse.  I wish I could pin down exactly where 
things went wrong in one case.  I will try doing some comparison to 
recent changes to see if I can find a solution to those problems.  I''d 
really like to get this alpha release done ASAP.

Roy

Roy Sutton wrote:
> Doing some comparison to older builds of wxRuby2 I see that some things 
> work better now and some worse.  
I hear you...
> I wish I could pin down exactly where 
> things went wrong in one case.  
With rubygems we can each have different versions installed in parallel 
and require specific versions to isolate when something
broke.
> I will try doing some comparison to 
> recent changes to see if I can find a solution to those problems. 
I''d
> really like to get this alpha release done ASAP.
>   
If no-one objects, I''m gonna update the version strings in lib/wx.rb
and
rakepackage, tag what we have as 0.0.35 and look to upload gems to 
rubyforge. No fanfare at this point.

It would be useful if you know of major problems with the samples if you 
could post them here so they can go in README for this release.

cheers
alex

Roy Sutton wrote:
> I''d really like to get this alpha release done ASAP.
>   
I''ve tagged 0.0.35 in the repository and am just now watching it 
recompile to an OS X gem which I''ll upload to rubyforge.

I''d be pleased to upload other platform gems - send me a note with a 
download link.

To build from clean sources, I just did something like:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/wxruby export -r 
v0_0_35 -d wxruby2_0_0_35 wxruby2

cd wxruby2_0_0_35

rake gem RELEASE=1
# or
rake gem

In the future I guess we should do our gems using release builds at wx 
but I think not so important right now.

On OS X, doing ''strip -x lib/wxruby2.bundle'' reduces the size
of the
binary with no apparent ill-effects, but I''ll see if there are any 
problems with others installing it via gems before committing.

cheers
alex

Alex Fenton wrote:
> I''ve tagged 0.0.35 in the repository and am just now watching it 
> recompile to an OS X gem which I''ll upload to rubyforge.
I just uploaded the Linux gem to rubyforge.
> In the future I guess we should do our gems using release builds at wx 
> but I think not so important right now.
Yes, we''ll have to find the right balance between RELEASE/DEBUG and 
VERBOSE/NOT
> On OS X, doing ''strip -x lib/wxruby2.bundle'' reduces the
size of the
> binary with no apparent ill-effects, but I''ll see if there are any
> problems with others installing it via gems before committing.
I also stripped the Linux version. I would be very surprised if doing so 
caused any problems.

Thanks for pushing forward with this, Alex!

Kevin