From: ben_crowell@... (Ben Crowell)
Date: 2002-01-23T07:32:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

AFAICT,

(1) There is currently /no/ way to write a cross-platform
GUI in Ruby that will run on both MacOS X and other systems.

(2) The only near-future hope for cross-platform Ruby GUIs
that run on MacOS X is Ruby/Qt.

Is this correct?

I tried getting Ruby/Tk running on MacOS X last night, and
had no luck. It could be because it just needs some trivial
modification, but I suspect it's related to the same issues
that are making Perl/Tk not work on MacOS X. There's a guy
named Jim Ingham at Apple who did the Tk port, but he isn't
planning (allowed?) to spend more time on getting Tk to work
with Perl/Tk.

I haven't delved too far into Ruby/Qt. Apparently Ruby/Qt3
will be required for MacOS X, and Ruby/Qt3 doesn't exist yet??
Is this right? Is Qt3 a version of Qt that hasn't come out
yet, and that will then have to be ported to MacOS X?