[ruby-talk:01642] Re: New Ruby projects

Great idea!

I support this effort.

If anyone is capable of doing this, but needs the proper development
tools, let me know, and I will see what I can do to finance them...

I will also provide a website domain and server space to assist in
its own growth.

I have an interest in seeing something like this done, and have no
problem keeping it open source.

If anyone else has good ideas, let's hear about them and try to get
them moving...

Guy N. Hurst



Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> ...
> However, a recent survey/comparison of Python GUI modules,
> 
>     http://www.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/gui.html
> 
> indicates that there is growing support to supplant Tkinter with wxPython as
> the default Python GUI. (There has been voluminous and intense discussion of
> such Python GUI issues in the comp.lang.python newsgroup within the past
> couple of week.)
> 
> Anyway, more information about wxWindows may be found here:
> 
>     http://www.wxwindows.org
> 
> I think it would be very useful to produce a Ruby/wxwin module for Ruby.
> Since the wxPython module has been around for a while, it might be worth
> looking into it for good ideas prior to doing a Ruby version. (I don't know
> it there would be any problems with the C++ implementation of wxwindows
> versus what I think is Ruby's primarily C interface support. I haven't
> looked into either one. I'm sure the Pragmatic Duo could surmount any
> problems here, if there are any.)
> 
> I also think it would be a very good thing to adopt such a module as the
> default Ruby GUI, meaning that it would be included as part of the standard
> distribution. This would make it much easier for people to develop, support,
> and "sell" Ruby/GUI projects internally and externally. (Even more so if
> there were a PGTR chapter on it. :-)
> 
> Conrad