PLBlocks 1.0-beta2 Released

July 11, 2009, by Landon Fuller

Changes

This release was focused on expanding the supported host and target architectures (thanks to everyone who provided testing!).

• iPhone OS 2.2 and later are now supported.
• The runtime is now available as an iPhone 3gs optimized armv6/armv7 universal binary.
• Development is now supported on PowerPC systems.

Download

The initial beta of Plausible Blocks is available for Leopard and Snow Leopard:

• Leopard: plblocks-1.0-beta2-leopard.dmg
• Snow Leopard: plblocks-1.0-beta2-snowleopard.dmg
• Project page: http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/

This beta release is provided for developer testing and experimentation. Plausible Blocks supports targeting Mac OS X 10.5 (PPC, i386, x86-64), iPhone OS 2.2+ (armv6, armv7), and iPhoneSimulator 2.2+ (i386). Garbage collection and Mac OS X 10.4 are currently unsupported.

Further Reading

If you’re interested in learning more about blocks, here are a few articles to get your started:

• Blocks Examples: NSOperationQueue and UIActionSheet and Using Blocks: Understanding the Memory Management Rules
• Mike Ash’s Friday Q&A on Blocks
• Jim Dovey’s Blocks Life-Cycles and Blocks Episode 1