From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-11-16T05:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf 2002 Slides for FreeRIDE Presentation

Dalibor Sramek wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:43:13AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> > Rich Kilmer wrote:
> >
> > I think it's pretty safe to say that FOX, FXRuby and FXScintilla will
> > work fine under FreeBSD (although I can't say whether they're in the
> > FreeBSD ports or not).
>
> There are ports of Fox and FXRuby (the port is called ruby-fox). No
> FXScintilla. Unfortunately the ports are not current (Fox 1.0.11, FXRuby
> 1.03) and FreeRIDE installation will likely need fresh source compilation
> (or maybe an e-mail or two to the port maintainer).

FXScintilla is embedded in FXRuby, but the version you have listed above is
a little old. The port should probably be updated.

> BTW: What is the expected date of 0.5.0 release shipping. I can
> hardly wait
> ;-)

As I said a couple days ago, we are very, very close. I put together a final
"ToDo List" for the FreeRIDE release. You can see it here:

	http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Release_0.5.0_Tasks

> And one more question: will the 1.7.x version of Ruby be required for
> FreeRIDE to run?

Yes.

Curt