From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T21:24:27+09:00
Subject: Re: WxRuby or FxRuby

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Friday wrote:
> 
>> I've used FOX, FLTK, and wxWidgets on C++ projects in the past six 
>> months (in that sequence).  I used fxRuby and wxRuby but in a very 
>> limited way.  BTW, I think substandard support for wxWidgets makes it 
>> hard for Python programmers to make the switch (wxPython being so 
>> incredibily popular).
>>
>> fxRuby pros:
>> FxRuby seems more popular in Ruby and support for it is clearly better 
>> than wxRuby.  I don't know if this is because it was included with the 
>> Ruby Installer for Windows or if the FreeRIDE project popularized it.
> 
> I can answer nearly all of the questions in these two paragraphs:
> 
> - FXRuby is the popular in the Ruby community because it is good enough, 
> and it was the first GUI toolkit available in Ruby that was good enough.
> 
> - The reason wxRuby's development is not as far along as many of us 
> would like is because there aren't enough developers working on it. Nick 
> Kral (who took it over from Kevin Smith) is essentially working on it by 
> himself and sporadic help from others. One or two added developer's to 
> the wxRuby project would make a world of difference.

wxWidgets looks very promising and has a very liberal license, which is 
important for the adoption of ruby.

What is the estimated effort for it's completition?

> - It was the FreeRIDE project that actually started the wxRuby project. 
> The GUI comparison that you liked to on the FreeRIDE wiki:
> 
> http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?GUIFrameworkProject/GUIComparison 
> 
> was started before FreeRIDE was written because we wanted to figure out 
> what GUI to use. FXRuby did not meet all of our needs, but it was the 
> best available choice at the time. We started the wxRuby project with 
> the goal of replacing FXRuby in FreeRIDE with wxRuby. That would now be 
> possible, except that no one has the time to do that now, either!  :-(

I've posted a message on freeride.devel, asking to contribute to the 
project (autocompletition).

But I got so far no answer.

I would be intrested to assist with the transistion to wxRuby, too.

> I hope that helped a little.
> 
> Curt

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