From: "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...>
Date: 2001-04-24T03:07:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14095] Re: FXRuby and registering callbacks

On Monday 23 April 2001 12:10, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Could someone tell me the right way to register
> > a callback in FXRuby?
>
> Barry and I have already discussed this a bit in private e-mails, but I
> wanted to clarify that in the current drop of FXRuby, the example programs
> are present in the source code tarball (e.g. FXRuby-0.99.167.tar.gz) but
> not in the Win32 precompiled binary distribution
> (FXRuby-0.99.167-win32.zip). The latter ZIP file literally contains only
> the shared library ("fox.so") for the Cygwin version of Ruby for Windows.
> My original intent was that one would download the source tarball and
> possibly also the Win32 binary if that was needed; but I agree with Barry
> that the Win32 package should include all of the "non-source" files, e.g.
> the web pages and examples. I will definitely correct this for the next
> drop.

FYI, wxWindows has what IMO is a good way to do his. The wxGTK distro is 
bundled in an all-inclusive tarball (sans docs), a tarball with just the 
library code, a tarball for demos and a tarball for samples. Now, the 
bundling for Windows and/or Mac may be different (haven't checked yet), but, 
I am thinking that maybe for FXRuby a good way to go is all-inclusive, 
library build only tar, example code tar and Window binary. This way, a Unix 
build could be done all at once, library only and then examples in a 
different directory as desired; Windows could be binary and then examples put 
wherever desired.

Currently, Winzip and others read tar.gz files now, or perhaps replicate the 
examples.tar as a zip file for those with older versions?

Just a thought :-)

Kent Starr
elderburn@mindpring.com