From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-11-07T01:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby has a Face that it wears on its feet

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com> wrote:
> Kyle Hunter wrote:
>> Jayson Williams wrote:
>>> How about a melding of the two?
>>
>> Giving shoes an official place in the Ruby language hierarchy would open
>> up a new world for desktop application programming for Ruby.
>
> That would not be appropriate.  Ruby is a language.  Making a specific
> gui library part of the language would be mixing things that should not
> be mixed *on that level*.

Ever looked into rubys source, it ships with tk bindings.

> That said, I *would* like a development environment that includes
> standardized gui libraries, and shoes seems fine.