From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T04:32:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems as key? Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

>On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:00 pm, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>| Michael DeHaan wrote:
>| > Dare I say it, but cloning CPAN near-exactly wouldn't be a bad way to go.
>| >
>| > And that means putting RPAN (or whatever) as part of the Ruby standard
>| > library, having college mirrors, doing dependancy checking, and so
>| > forth.
>|
>| This is not quite the same thing, but...
>|
>| The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is going to include RubyGems and a
>| GUI interface to RubyGems. RubyGems will be in the final 1.8.2 release of
>| the installer (hopefully the GUI interface will be ready in time to be
>| included as well). It is also possible that a follow-on release would
>| contain RPA (and a corresponding GUI interface).
>
>And use the same GUI for both? 
>
>Seems to me it would be best of Gems team and RPA team really worked hard 
>together to create shared framework. Gems serving as a general packaging 
>framework and the idea of RPA becoming QC would be a real boon for Ruby. 
>--Mind you though, setup.rb still does things they can't. So lets draw that 
>in too.
>
>Together we stand, divided...
>
>As they say,
>T.
>
>
>  
>
This would not work. I'm creating a GUI for Windows, I have more 
experience with GUI design and what a user wants in a easy to use gui. 
If you want the job done right, you've got ot do it yourself. I will 
make sure my GUI for RPA(on windows currently) is feasible where maybe 
others could use it as well. I will keep others in mind. However I 
dislike the way people design, and so I have to do it myself. Its a 
perfection task, not a personal one. I like easy-to-use- guis with good 
design.

My implementation of the RPA GUI is to use WideStudio first because its 
much easier than any other, then I will port it to a popular(aka native 
- really its not, its called popular; Qt, GTK, etc) toolkit using GUI 
toolkit. WideStudio has its own widgets, and I'm aware not everyone 
likes a non-popular toolkit look. So I'll rewrite it quickly in another. 
It will also be for Unix OSes depending if I see it good or not. 
Possiblyeven porting it to unix, depending how I will implement it to 
jump to root. :)

David Ross
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