[ruby-talk:01692] Re: New Ruby projects

Conrad Schneiker writes:
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> Clemens Hintze <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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> FLTK looks very interesting, but it unfortunately doesn't seem to
> have as strong and broad a group of developers as wxWindows, nor
> nearly as many users, nor the same level of documentation. (These
> are just my general

Hah! Gotcha you! :-)))

Please consider following sentence:

   Ruby looks very interesting, but it unfortunately doesn't seem to
   have as strong and broad a group of developers as Perl or Python,
   nor nearly as many users, nor the same level of documentation.

;-))))

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> Looking over the GUI evaluations/debates by the Pythons, the
> strongest proponents seem to generally favor wxWindows, and they
> further claim that the wxWindows people are quite favorably inclined
> toward Python and are quite helpful. This is an issue that they have
> been delving into pretty

Hmm! I cannot remember right now, but did they ever take FLTK into
consideration? And did they decide explicitely against FLTK and *for*
wxWindows?

If so, perhaps one reason could be, that during the time of that
discussion there was already a Python extension for wxWindows. The
FLTK extension is *now* on the way! Not totally finished yet at the
time being.

A second reason may be, that FLTK is not widely known yet! :-(

> seriously for quite a while. I think it would probably be unwise to
> not follow their lead in this on one hand, and it would be good to
> leverage off of their experience on the other.

Sure! If they ever did consider FLTK and decided against it due to
technical reasons.

> (And later on we can get them to convert to Ruby. :-)

This should not be our reason for decision! I e.g. do not like a GUI
framework like e.g. MFC. I like a toolkit, that works like e.g. Tk. I
think a application framework is not as flexible as a toolkit could
be. 

I can take every toolkit and build an application framework around
it. But the opposite is not true in all cases.

So, IMHO, anybody could find reasons for or against a certain GUI.

Just my two cent!

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> Conrad

\cle

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