From: Ben Crowell <crowell02@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T10:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

M. Mirra wrote:
 >What about a meta-language to describe interfaces (much like Glade
 >uses XML, though Glade is limited to GTK) and then have a program
 >produce specific code for the various toolkits?

 >This way we wouldn't need Yet Another Library and people could use the
 >toolkit they like most.

Have you seen XUL?
http://www.xulplanet.com/


I wrote:
 > What's wrong with including 2 or 3
 >different APIs with the standard Ruby distribution?

P. Tomson wrote:
 >Isn't that what we're doing now?  Fox and Tk are included (at least on
 >Windows) now.  Maybe for the OSX distribution of Ruby RubyCocoa or Rigs
 >(or some merging of the two) should be included.

Well, the original post was about standardizing around a single API, and
making it something that's completely cross-platform.
AFAIK, there isn't presently /any/ good candidate that covers all major 
platforms.
Fox doesn't exist for MacOS, RubyCocoa and Rigs are limited to certain
platforms, and I'm still curious if anyone has tried using Ruby-Tk
on MacOS X???