[ruby-talk:01647] Re: New Ruby projects

((comp.lang.misc + cc: ruby-lang ML))

From: Guy N. Hurst <[e-mail]>

> 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...

Well, I'm not the optimal person due to very limited C++ knowledge and still
being a Ruby novice, but I learn quickly and I have no qualms about asking
however many dumb questions it takes to overcome problems, so I'm sure I can
get this working if we can't get someone else to do it before I finish up
with the comp.lang.ruby RFD process.

What do others think about making wxWindows the default (not exclusive, just
default) cross-platform Ruby GUI and including Ruby/wxWindows as part of the
standard Ruby distribution?

(Incidentally, another design consideration for the Ruby/wxWindows module is
to anticipate the possibility of really good cross-platform
availability/support of GTK some 2 or 4 or 6 years from now, in which case
we would want to make it as easy as possible to make GTK the new default
Ruby GUI, while preserving the wxWindows interface with the wxWindows/GTK
binding.)

Conrad
...
>
> 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. :-)