From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2005-03-15T22:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit

Nicholas Marriott wrote:

>  lighter and more free than Qt (not to mention the
> fact that google fails to turn up a website for ruby-qt and it doesn't
> appear in FreeBSD ports, making it useless for me)
Possibly that might be because the ruby bindings for Qt 3.x are called
'QtRuby'. There was an older unrelated project for Qt 1.x, called
'Ruby/Qt'. Try searching for 'kde + ruby' or 'qt + ruby' instead.

As QtRuby/Korundum are part of the KDE project I would assume FreeBSD ports
exist.

I don't know what you mean be 'lighter' - there is a version of Qt for
embedded devices which works fine on PDAs and Smartphones.

The next version of Qt, Qt 4.x will be GPL'd on the Windows platform, and
there will be a corresponding GPL'd windows version of QtRuby. It is
already licensed under the GPL on all other platforms, including Mac OS X.

If there is demand, Alex Kellett and myself will be happy to release a
commercial paid for version of QtRuby for Qt 4.x.

-- Richard