And this is the conversation with Brendan and me
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Rb-scpt
From: Eric Hu hu.eric@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:32 PM
To: brendan@btsystems.com.au
Hi Brendan,
I found your email on your Github profile after using your
rb-scpt
gem. Thank you for forking it, separating the Ruby source, and
publishing a new gem. I was trying to fix an issue with
consular-iterm and your repo helped make that possible.
I don't know what your intentions are for rb-scpt, but would you
be
open to taking over rb-appscript on Rubygems? I already have
permission from Hamish: that conversation is included below.
Taking
the actual gem will require talking to the people at Rubygems.
I'm
happy to take care of that to see that rb-appscript gets some
continuity.
Matt Neuberg maintains a fork of Hamish's code on Github as
well.
I've had this conversation with him as well, though he hasn't
expressed much interest in maintenance going forward.[1]
What do you think? Just say the word and I'll reach out to
the
Rubygems people. If it'll make the decision easier, I'm happy to
help
maintain the gem and review pull requests.
Cheers,
Eric Hu
[1] https://github.com/mattneub/appscript/issues/12
--------- Coversation with Hamish ------------
Hengist Podd sent you a message:
If Brendan wants it he's totally welcome to it; surprised he
never
asked before posting his fork. Or Matt, but I think Brendan's
version
has made more progress. Honestly, they should throw in together
if
they really care about it. He'll need to contact the RubyGems
maintainers to get it transferred as I can't log into it any more.
As
far as modernizing the C portion, replacement Cocoa APIs are
available
in NSAppleEventDescriptor (10.11+) and NSWorkspace. It's years
since I
did any Ruby, and never did much like it or have a clue how to
build
[Obj-]C extensions for it (I just nicked that bit from RubyOSA), so
can't offer you any advice beyond 1. refer to SwiftAE
[https://bitbucket.org/hhas/swiftae/]
for pointers [sic] on using the relevant Cocoa APIs, and 2. Apple
doesn't give a crap about Mac
Automation any more and seems perfectly happy letting it die off
from
mismanagement and neglect, so caveat emptor as far as long-term
prospects are concerned. HTH has
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In reply to Eric Hu
Eric Hu sent you a message on Bitbucket: Hi there, I'm writing
this
for Hamish Sanderson, original author of Appscript. If this is
you,
please read on. If not, you can stop here (though I would
appreciate a
short note letting me know I've reached the wrong person). First
off,
I'd like to say I'm a happy user of your work. I used rb-appscript
for
years without realizing it, via the Consular gem. Over the last
several months, I've been tracking down an issue with Consular
that
depends on rb-appscript. I eventually tracked down the issue
and
reported it in what I thought was the source repo.[1] It turns
out
that I reported it to a fork, and the issue was actually resolved
in
that repo. Unfortunately other gem developers don't benefit from
this
change since it's not reflected on Rubygems. If you still have
control
of the rb-appscript gem on Rubygems.org, would you be open to
transferring it to someone else? Two viable candidates would be
Matt
Neuburg and Brendan Thompson. Matt forked appscript and ported it
to
Github[2]. Brendan forked just the Ruby portion of the repo[3]
and
created his own gem to solve his problem with jira-omnifocus[4].
It
looks like there's lots of users who have benefitted from your
past
work, myself among them. I'm hoping that I'll be able to easily
use
your work in the future as well. In any event, thank you for
taking
the time to read this message and thank you for your hard work
on
appscript. Cheers, Eric [1]
https://github.com/mattneub/appscript/issues/12#issuecomment-164085415
[2] https://github.com/mattneub/appscript
[3] https://github.com/BrendanThompson/rb-scpt
[4]
https://github.com/devondragon/jira-omnifocus/issues/13
From: Brendan Thompson brendan@btsystems.com.au
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:28 AM
To: Eric Hu hu.eric@gmail.com
Hey Eric,
I could be interested. I’m not too sure I would have too
much time to be
able to do much though. I also prefer the name of my forked gem as
well :).
However, if you’re willing to assist then I may be
inclined to do it.
Thanks,
Brendan