From: Thursday <nospam@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T07:39:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-fltk project abandoned?

Thursday wrote:
> I recently switched several of my c++ projects from ___ to FLTK 1.1.7 
> beta (initial one for licensing reasons, and then all others for 
> productivity/preference reasons).
> 
> The productivity benefits of fltk/fluid seem to be a perfect match for 
> ruby's famed productivity (and the licensing is similarly liberal--no 
> need to share code just because it is statically linked to the gui 
> toolkit while being normal-LGPL regarding modifications to the gui 
> toolkit itself).
> 
> To my dismay, I discovered that ruby-fltk is horribly out-of-date so I 
> cannot use ruby with my new favorite GUI toolkit!
> 
> Are there plans to revitalize the ruby-fltk project?  Or is there a 
> newer project that already took its place?
> 
> This might be a good project for a grant...ruby and fltk seem like a 
> perfect match (licensing, productivity, very active development).

It appears that Jeremy Henty will be taking over the ruby-fltk project.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6746966&forum_id=500

More:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-fltk/
http://www.fltk.org
http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk-videos/