From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T09:10:59+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:46:21 +1100, Ben Crowell wrote:


> Why is it necessary for one API to become the official Ruby Way To Do a
> GUI? To me the issue is simply knowing that I can write to an API that
> will allow users to use my software, without having to tell them to
> download a bunch of special libraries they don't already have. What's
> wrong with including 2 or 3 different APIs with the standard Ruby
> distribution?

I don't think there's any issue with having more than one "standard"
GUI included with the distribution. The only thing I'd like to see
is that there's at least one included that will work across *nix,
Windows and Mac,so that users on those platforms can use a Ruby GUI
application out of the box, rather than them having to download
libraries or not being able to use it at all because the particular
GUI isn't supported on their platform.