From: Joseph Erickson <jerickson@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T21:18:58+09:00
Subject: RE: Status of Ruby on the Mac

Since the Mac is basically a Unix with a very pretty interface, Ruby 
runs very well.  I know for a fact that you can get mysql-ruby running 
(with some work-arounds ruby-talk:44685) and the openGL ruby library.  
There are also Cocoa libraries for ruby, Cocoa being the windowing API 
for Mac OS X.

I don't know about tcl.  You may need to install X Windows (another easy 
install) but I don't know.  Anyone with more knowledge want to jump in?

The work-arounds I mention above usually have to do with  the Mac's 
"strange" directory structure.  More and more open source projects are 
building support for this into their projects (mysql,X Windows) so it's 
becoming less of a problem.  Plus more and more of these projects are 
releasing binaries for the Mac, so owning a Mac is becoming easier than 
ever for the Unix user.

And I'm always willing to help.  Sometimes.

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