Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Long processing?

[Neil S. <ne...@ha...>]

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Charles Miller wrote:
> On 25/11/2005, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
> 
>> If you're able to recompile both ruby and rubycocoa, you could give 
>> it a shot. It's still necessary to make AppKit calls on the main 
>> thread (use self.performSelector...), but you can do ruby-level 
>> background tasks ok. I've attached the two patches - one to 
>> ruby-1.8.2 and one to RubyCocoa.
> 
> Is there some way (preferably with idiot-proof instructions :) ) to 
> ship the patched Ruby runtime with an app? I'd like to use RubyCocoa  to
> write an application that pulls information from the network, so  if you
> can't do work in a background thread without recompiling Ruby,  it's
> pretty much a non-starter.

In the archives of this list there's a 'standaloneify' script, and it
seems to work as well with a patched ruby as with an unpatched.

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Neil Stevens - ne...@ha...

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