From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T09:50:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Curses VS. Ncurses

On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:40 AM, Barry Dmytro wrote:
> I wish to write an application in ruby using Curses/Ncurses, but it 
> seems as
> though there are 2 different api's to deal with.  There is an api with
> ruby-1.8 that is titled 'curses', and then there is another called
> ncurses-ruby ( http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/ ).  At first I though 
> that
> perhaps they were the same api just in two different locations, but the
> latter seems more robust than the one bundled with ruby.  Any 
> suggestions
> about which would be the better api.  I use GNU/Linux exclusively, but 
> I
> test my software in windows as well.  I noticed that the curses library
> bundled with ruby doesn't work out of the box with the one-click 
> windows
> ruby installer.  The main reason I bring this up is that I am concerned
> about portability.  I know that ncurses-ruby is capable of using 
> pdcurses
> in windows making it portable across many platforms, but I question the
> portability of the ruby standard library 'curses'.

i got my pure ruby curses editor working a while back on win32.
i didn't use the one click installer however, and instead the
d4win one. alas i'm no longer using win32 again so not sure of
the current urls

summary: sure, curses will work, and i'd suggest using std curses
as its well, standard ;)

good luck,
Alex