From: _why <why@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T06:37:31+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Shoes Curious (0.r396) is out

Today marks the first official release of Shoes, entitled Curious.

Shoes is a tiny toolkit (coded in C) for writing windowing apps in Ruby. 
It's quite cross-platform, offering an environment for Windows, OS X, 
Linux, BSDs and many others.  Shoes is a reactionary work, countering
the widget-centric toolkits like FOX, QT and Tk.  I take my cues from
REBOL/View, Processing, NodeBox and the web.

At its core, Shoes amounts to about 8,000 lines of C code and 1,000
lines of Ruby code.

Shoes also includes a built-in manual.  Run: shoes --manual.  This
document is perhaps 1/2 complete, let's say.

At any rate, the new builds are:

 * Windows XP/Vista:
   http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.exe
 * Mac OS X (Intel)
   http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg
 * Mac OS X (PowerPC)
   http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-ppc-novideo.dmg
 * Linux/BSD source tarball
   http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz

Most Shoes discussion happens on hackety.org.  The Shoes development
page is at: <http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes>

And that, my friends, is that.

_why