From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T00:45:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby GUIs and installation effort

R. Mark Volkmann wrote:

>Quoting Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au>:
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>>Call me nuts, I just like the idea of a Ruby toolkit that works out of the
>>box on Windows, Mac and *nixes like so much of Ruby's useful libraries.
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>This is the state I'm hoping we reach at some point ... a one-click installer
>for all major platforms that includes the most commonly used GUI libraries.
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That specific method would mean an insanely huge download. It would
need to be split into seperate packages. You still have a limited
interface like wxWidgets though, so for real work it just won't do
unless its a simplistic application.

David Ross
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