From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T11:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

TRANS wrote:
> "enough" is the keyword in what I said. Obviously it is useful to
> those who use Tk. But Ruby is not implementing "Tk". It is only
> providing a binding. So you have to have Tk installed for it to be of
> use anyway. If Ruby had a dedicated GUI, that would be another matter.
Dedicated GUI... I've never been happy with Smalltalk's.  There are good reasons why
Ruby does not provide such things.

I'm for unbundling Tk (and WEBRick and so on) from 1.9, but not because that is not
useful enough.