From: "Glenn M. Lewis" <noSpam@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T02:46:58+09:00
Subject: RubyMan - a Ruby binding for RenderMan - namespace question

Hi all!

	About 10 years ago, I wrote a Perl binding for RenderMan
(see http://www.aqsis.org/ or http://www.renderman.org/ for more info),
and am interested in once again playing around with RenderMan from
my favorite language (which obviously is now Ruby, and has been for
about 4 years).

	There is a Tcl binding written by Michael B. Johnson (aka "Wave")
(see http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~wave/ for more information) that uses "RI::"
as its namespace (short for RenderMan Interface) which makes a lot of sense,
and is short (which Matz noted that he likes at RubyConf2005) and reminds
me of "GL::" (used by the OpenGL binding), and I would like to continue to use
"RI::".

	I'm thinking of it looking like this:

require 'rubyman'
RI::renderRIB ...

	As you probably know, there is already an 'ri' Ruby documentation
application... so my question is: would it bother anybody if I go ahead
and use "RI::" as the top-level namespace for RubyMan?

	I'm thinking of making this a RubyForge project after I get it working.

	Thanks for any feedback you wish to give me!

-- Glenn

P.S.  Wave's PhD thesis is the most cool thesis I have ever read... check it
out above if you are interested in computer graphics and animation.  I would
love to have a Wave's World or even Build-a-Dude running under Ruby!!!