From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2011-02-02T06:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to start

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 02:40:17 pm Fabio Cevasco wrote:
> I really can't wait until you can provide a proper gem. While Shoes is fine
> for standalone applications, I'd like to be able to add a GUI to an
> existing project, without being 'tied' to Shoes' packaging black magic for
> distribution.

+1

I haven't considered Shoes in quite a long time because of precisely this 
reason. I have several existing ways to deploy apps, and it'd be really nice 
if Shoes could separate the GUI framework from the deployment system. (I 
suppose the deployment system might depend on Shoes, but I see no reason it 
should be the other way around.)

Monkeybars seems _slightly_ less bound to Rawr -- hey, at least I can make a 
rawr app without Monkeybars -- but I'd still much rather have it entirely 
separate, so Ruby people can install my app as a gem.