From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-11-02T13:51:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24141] Re: Modularity question

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From: Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:24120] Re: Modularity question


> Unfortunately, my short term opinion is that it would be a pretty huge
> undertaking, and that I wouldn't hold up any of my other projects for
> such a library.  It would probably be easiest for your immediate
> project to just choose one interface lib (curses or Tk), write a clean
> interface to your user interactions and come back later to add
> interfaces on a per "screen" or "dialog" basis.

Hmm, I'm not talking about a complete, general-purpose library.
Just a way of partitioning my own code, written as needed.
 
> In the long term I would love to have an interaction based library
> which could use several different backends - GTK, the Web, curses,
> etc.  In my (miniscule) spare time, I've been trying to think about
> how to get from here to there. I think that prototyping several small,
> specific instances of interaction semantics is a good start.
> (Ruby is an ideal language for this)

That has crossed my mind also. But that *is* a large undertaking.
One that I am certainly not up to by myself.

Hal