From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-08-20T06:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Killer App - every language has one

In article <qc8Vc.1583$E36.607@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,
Ruby Script  <nospam@nospamnospamnospam.com> wrote:
>Which ruby app is so compelling that people who don't even intend on 
>programming ruby are willing to install it?
>
>For Python, there's SCons and a few others.

Don't know what that is.

>
>What are some possible apps we can create in Ruby that will be OUR 
>community's killer app?
>
>A modern ViewCVS perhaps?  

I'm hearing a lot about Subversion lately being the CVS replacement.  
Maybe try to do something like ViewCVS, but for Subversion.  If it turns 
out that Subversion 'replaces' CVS, then you're on the ground floor.

>A cross-platform package manager that unites 
>win32, linux and *bsd?  

Is that possible?

>What is realistic, much-needed and compelling 
>that we can produce within 12 months?
>

Ruby as an embedded (or add-on) scripting language for some popular tool?

Phil