From: Michael McDaniel <ruby@...>
Date: 2002-03-31T17:28:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Metakit bindings?

I hope there's an expert interested!  I have played with Metakit some with 
Tcl and think it would be a great addition to the Ruby tools.

~Michael McDaniel

Bob wrote:

> I played around with Metakit for Python the other day and thought it would
> be nice to add Metakit to Ruby's arsenal as well. I ask the Metakit guys
> about this and they said they would be very interested in doing this.
> 
> The gentleman said that he prefers to work with a lanugauge "expert" so
> that the bindings are who that language would naturally do things.
> 
> I am no such expert but think this would be a good thing. His reply is
> below:
> 
> ========= From: Jean-Claude Wippler
> I'd definitely be very interested in this, but I don't know much about
> Ruby. From what I've learned from Python and Tcl, I think a binding needs
> to pay attention to the 'proper' way of doing things in a language (Tcl
> and Python are quite different bindings).  Both bindings had the help of
> language experts, and it shows in the 'natural' way things have ended up
> IMO.
> 
> There's not much I think I can do, other that encourage you and others to
> do this, and of course offer to integrate things once a wrapper exists -
> you might want bring Ruby up on the MK mailing list, and perhaps get some
> more support and help that way:
> =========
> 
> Would there be any takers on this? I hope!
> 
> Matakit home page:  http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
> Python's binding: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html
> 
> Bob