From: "John-Mason P. Shackelford" <john-mason@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T04:02:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit

Richard,

I've been interested in using QtRuby for some time now. I believe Alex 
once mentioned that lack of availability of a non-commercial Windows 
license for Windows was an issue, but I recently discovered that the 
book C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131240722) does contain a 
non-commercial Windows distribution of Qt3.

In any case, how much money and demand are we talking about to make Qt a 
viable GUI toolkit for cross-platform ruby development? ;) I'd bet that 
once QtRuby became available for Windows it would catch on quickly.

John-Mason P. Shackelford

Richard Dale wrote:
> 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
> 
>