From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-10-30T01:38:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop GUI apps in Ruby

Will Parsons wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> James Britt wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Users will still have to have Java installed to use a JRuby app.
>>
>> I know, but I think I can rely on that.  Have you seen a computer 
>> without a JVM lately?
> 
> Yes.  I'm working on one right now.  

Really?  Under what circumstances?  Even "can't-change-anything" 
corporate deployments tend to have a usable JVM.

> If you want maximum cross-platform,
> you shouldn't rely on having Java.

Got a better idea, short of dropping Ruby for this project?  Native 
packaging on wx?

Best,
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