From: TRANS <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T11:43:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

On 7/17/07, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.

But it's not likely that you'd use Webrick for a commercial app
either. That's not the reason for its inclusion. Webrick is written in
Ruby and acts as an lcd for webservering. Which makes it great for
prototypes and quick hacks. Think of all the neat tricks we've seen --
like the smallest wiki in the known universe.

T.