From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T15:53:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28849] [Announce] RIDE (Ruby IDE) and FreeRIDE merge -- a call for ideas and help

My Ruby IDE project (RIDE) is merging with Rich Kilmer's FreeRIDE project.
While we have been merely discussing the pros and cons of using Eclipse as a
basis of a Ruby IDE vs. a pure Ruby implementation, Rich has been quietly
coding a real, live pure-ruby IDE based on a ruby wrapping of the Scintilla
code editing component.

We will be officially using the name FreeRIDE for this project, and we
invite you to post your comments, ideas, desires, etc. concerning what
features a Ruby IDE should have. We have created a Wiki page on Ruby Garden
for this purpose:

     http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?FreeRIDE

We have project space set up at Savannah for FreeRIDE
(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ride) but it doesn't yet contain anything.
And there is also an entry in RAA
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=FreeRIDE), that currently
just points you to the Wiki page.

We want this to be a Ruby community effort, and we want the FreeRIDE to
serve the real needs of the Ruby developer. Feel free to include any ideas
you have -- even the far-out ones. Later on we will sort, prioritize, and
publish an expected feature set for the first major release.

Rich's current FreeRIDE implementation uses SWin/VRuby and is, therefore,
windows-specific. Initial FreeRIDE development will probably continue with
this. However, there is a project under way for integrating Scintilla with
FOX & FXRuby, and as soon as this is available we will convert over and
become multi-platform.

Finally, if you are interested in working on this project, please let us
know. We will need developers, testers, and people willing to write
documentation and online help. Obviously, we need developers first.

At the time of this announcement, the following people have signed on as
project developers:

     Hal Fulton (mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com)
     Curt Hibbs (mailto:curt@hibbs.com)
     Rich Kilmer (mailto:rich@infoether.com)

This is your chance to get the features that you want included.

Curt