From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-05-09T23:06:36+09:00
Subject: Ruby bindings for MetaKit

Looking through the ruby-talk archives, I came across this:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/37075

Back in March of 2002, Bob <bobx@linuxmail.org> asked about
Ruby bindings for MetaKit.  Funny, I was just searching Google
for "ruby metakit bindings" which is how I found the archived
message.  :-)

Of course, the thread only has two messages in it and I
don't see any other messages indicating that work has started
on this project.  Has work begun?  What's the status?

I'm no "Ruby expert" (by far) but I've worked with Tcl/MetaKit
(I run a few WiKit wikis, which are Tcl/MetaKit based) and would
love to have a Ruby MetaKit available.  I'm especially interested
in creating a Scripted Document for Ruby so I can wrap a whole
Ruby application and distribute it with two files: the instrumented
Ruby interpreter with MetaKit and VFS support, and the scripted
document that contains the application and all the other necessary
files.

Getting MetaKit bindings for Ruby should be really easy -- I'm
guessing a week's worth of work.  Instrumenting the Ruby interpreter
with MetaKit support will probably be a lot more work, but it's
something for far into the future ... :-)

-- Dossy

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