From: "Ara.T.Howard" Date: 2004-06-09T07:53:40+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and mustard On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Aredridel wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 00:55 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 12:53:42 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote: >> >>> * do it using a nice library for c. glib is good - lot's of bells. >>> extra dependancy though... >> >> If you've got a serious problem to solve, the dependency added by >> glib surely pales as a concern. Heck, I don't know what it is, but if >> *you* think it will help, use it! > > Glib is the base library for GTK+ -- it's an object and signal toolkit > in C. Very nice API, for C anyway. It has a lot of ruby-ish features. > It's nice to use. > > However, I'd use Ruby for the same: Same functionality, plus the > language to code (or even just prototype) additional parts in. > > Ari this is about where i'm at... glib is really nice, but the ruby api is sufficient for most purposes... -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do | not love it. --Dogen ===============================================================================