From: Alex Fenton <aff28@...>
Date: 2009-10-29T23:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop GUI apps in Ruby


> In this case, I think being tied to JRuby may actually be an advantage. 
> It's the only way I can see to have a cross-platform, easily 
> distributable Ruby application.  And it seems like both wxRuby and Shoes 
> depend too much on native extensions to work with JRuby, and depend too 
> much on MRI to distribute to general users.  

Yes, I think you're right here. It's possible to create fully native 
packages using wxRuby etc, but there's no single cross-platform tool 
like RAWR. You have to use a mix of tools, eg Ocra for Windows, Platypus 
for OS X. RAWR is a credit to the developers.

a