From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T09:52:59+09:00
Subject: RE: RANT: Ruby GUI API

Curt Hibbs wrote:

> I have to say the I really like the architecture and implementation of SWT
> and I would love to be using it in FreeRIDE. We temporarily tabled the
> discussion over GUI toolkits because:
> 
> 1) There was no obvious choice that met all of our requirements.

Do you think the FreeRIDE group would be able to contribute an idea of 
their ideal API?  IE, a minimal set of requirements for the API itself, not 
the underlying toolkit?

> In the meantime (as I tried to hint strongly before), if someone out there
> wants to port SWG, FreeRIDE could be the first "customer"!

It might be as much work to port as to do it from scratch, but perhaps not. 
I just want to make sure that if we do port it, we avoid any legacy API 
baggage, and do things the Ruby Way.

-- 
--- SER