From: mdiam <maurice.diamantini@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T19:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk on Windows and Mac OS X 10.6

On Feb 19, 6:13 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you have a recipe on how to build this full Ruby/Tk distrib from
> > sources, I could test it on Macosx and some linux.
> > These source would be :
> > - ruby-1.9xxx
> > - tcltk-8.5xxx or tcltk-8.6xxx
>
> > My idea would be to create a stand alone ruby sumo distrib (rubylab ?)
> > with  Ruby + Tk + Qt + FFI + some science selected extensions.
>
> The only real cross platform distro I'm aware of is "rawr" for jruby.
> If all you need is swing or the eclipse swt you're good to go (there's
> examples of ruby wrapping the swt in the redcar project).

Not really, jruby (that I like) work on java which
can be see as a platform by itself. So if you need to use
other lib (such as glpk (c), lemon (c++) , coin-or (c++), ..
you have or play with jni interface.

The FFI ffi-tk ruby project should work with any plateform
(e.g.  jruby but also macruby, etc...).
But if Hidetoshi hasn't choose that way (i.e. ffi) for tk,
propably there is a good reason (like the threads, or simply
it much more work ?)

-- Maurice