From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2005-04-15T08:14:36+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-fltk project abandoned? In article , 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To my dismay, I discovered that ruby-fltk is horribly out-of-date so I 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). Good news/bad news... I have used some very nice FLTK bindings for Ruby and also a version of fluid that was modified to spit-out Ruby code instead of C++. It was all very nice... However, the bad news is that this was all developed at a company and they are hesitant to release all this wonderful work into the wild... Phil