From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T01:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

After reviewing both sites in terms of their documentation it does
indeed appear that Ruby's Wx implementation lacks a considerable amount
of classes. That taken with your observation that the last release
update was almost two years ago, might place wxRuby down there is the
ranks of GUI toolkit consideration if you are looking for a current and
complete offering.

That narrows things down to Fox, GTK, and Qt. From what I have read and
experienced the Ruby Qt implementation is current and very active. As
in version 4.x. The original Ruby-GNOME project is obsolete and been
replaced with Ruby-GNOME2, which also appears to be current and active.
As in the last revision update being this month. Then as others have
posted, FXRuby is worthy of consideration. It's last revision update
was just a couple of months ago and it is gaining popularity from what
I have seen.

Personally, I haven't used FxRuby but have used Ruby implementations of
GTK and Qt. Of those two to me I felt more comfortable with Qt. Taking
all of the licensing bias aside it just seemed a better fit in terms of
Ruby's OO and mindset. The GTK option just felt more "jammed in" to
make it fit into Ruby's world. Just my feelings using them.

Marcelo wrote:
> I also have seen:
>
> http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?What_Classes_Are_Implemented_In_Wxruby
>
> especially section: Classes missing in both TODO for wxruby2
>
> I don't know if I have something more to see, so that's why I'm asking.
>
> gregarican wrote:
> > Have you actually read the feature list of both Wx projects to
> > determine their completeness? Or are you just basing things on the fact
> > that the wxRuby project hasn't been updated since late 2004? I wouldn't
> > always base things solely on revision dates. There are some mature
> > projects out there that aren't updated on a monthly basis.
> >
> > Marcelo wrote:
> > > I would LOVE wxRuby when it is done.
> > >
> > > This is the last state, from SourceForge:
> > >
> > > Development Status: 4 - Beta
> > > wxRuby	0.6.0  	November 21, 2004
> > >
> > > Not as near as wxPython 2.6.3.
> > >
> > > It's a shame.
> > >
> > > Marcin Mielzynski wrote:
> > > > Marcelo wrote:
> > > > > Oh, yes, I saw that page, but for what I saw, most of them are in early
> > > > > development or dead. The only one apparently working is the Ruby/Gnome.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The most mature and the most feature-rich is FXRuby. I wrote my master
> > > > degree using it. It was quite complex application using opengl and swig
> > > > interfacing with c++. I had some minor problems with it. As can be seen
> > > > from wxruby homepage, it is also under active development.
> > > > 
> > > > lopex