From: Clemens Hintze Date: 2000-03-06T11:21:54+01:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:01751] Ruby GUIs Conrad Schneiker writes: > ((comp.lang.misc + cc: ruby-lang ML)) > > [Changed title to better reflect current topic.] > > From: Clemens Hintze ... > > Uh?!? I thought, I know the history (the official one!). Was it > > changed last year? :-/ > > Just what I got reading their home page some time ago. They should > let you revise it for them! Erhm ... where did you read this? I have read the description at http://www.fltk.org/about.html just a few minutes before. Perhaps it is my non-knowledge about English, but I have understand, that FLTK was originally developped for in-house products of Mr. Spitzak's employer. But then, as politics changed, they have decided not to use FLTK any longer. So it was not leftover from an abandoned project. But the new boss of Mr. Spitzak has simply decided not to use it anymore. It was already used successful in some projects. Perhaps that was, what you have meant. If so, then sorry for the confusion my bad English skills have brought to you. ... > > I would use Ruby/GTK instead of wxWindows if I have a choice! But > > if the Ruby/FLTK extension is ready, I will forget all the other > > and use this; regardless of what is default GUI in Ruby ;-))) > > That's fine with me, but this last question wasn't a question about > default Ruby GUI. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. > > This is just a question about whether the Ruby/GTK module could be > included as part of standard distribution. Then, if (when/more) > Linux venders (and Why not? But OTOH, I do not think, that Ruby have to include any GUI at all. It is somewhat bothersome for newbies to get all they want if it was split, but it would make distribution much easier, IMHO. I would not add any GUI to Ruby. But in the download section I would group Ruby distribution together with some GUI extensions and links to the GUI libs as well. So the user could decide on the first glance, what GUI to take. He could fetch all necessary files then, because all links are available on the right place. ... > Conrad \cle