[maemo-developers] To all Ruby developers on Maemo

[From: maemo at bitblit.net]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Mark Somerville wrote:

> The developers of ruby-gtk2, on which ruby-maemo is built, are planning a
> new release soon. This is great news, because they say they have fixed
> the mainloop polling that causes the CPU to wakeup around 100 times a
> second, killing the battery.
> 
> However, the developer (Tom Swindell) of ruby-maemo (the Hildon
> bindings) seems to have disappeared and I don't have the ruby-maemo
> source code. Do you? Is anyone planning to maintain it? Should we break
> ruby-maemo into ruby-hildon and ruby-gtk2?
> 
> Is anyone else actually using ruby-maemo?
> 
> Any discussions on this stuff would be welcome. It would even be nice
> just to find out who else uses ruby-maemo!

Ive been waiting for the ruby packages on maemo to not require voodoo to 
install (at least, that's how I remember it on the N800). Does ruby-maemo 
give me that? I think the use of Ruby on maemo has been held back...



-- 
Aj.